Word: cesspools
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...Hearst-papers ran a cartoon depicting Churchill's speech as the tourniquet on a British arm bleeding from wounds labeled "Nazi Fleet Escape" and "Singapore." Another cartoon pictured Uncle Sam with a gas mask labeled "Unity" while poison gas labeled "Distrust in Our Allies" swirls up from a cesspool marked "Berlin and Tokio...
...print. . . . Where is the civilization of which we boast? If a man who is tired of hearing of death and planned murder is stupid, Lord! let me be d-d stupid. If a man who feels that he does not know how to help mankind out of the cesspool it is now in, and admits it, is a moron, I admit of no defense. Once I deplored the stupidity of the ivory-tower artists; there I made a mistake. Ivory towers may fall and the occupants may be crushed, but who would not choose to be crushed rather than...
...Please understand that I do not wish to imply that TIME is responsible for the stinking cesspool, but it does help pass the odor...
...gaslit Gomorrah without peer. The Barbary Coast (1933) offered pre-earthquake San Francisco as the most vicious spot in the U. S. The French Quarter (1936) revealed New Orleans unrivaled in vice on a sinful planet. This week, with Gem of the Prairie, Mr. Asbury peers down the cesspool of Chicago, convincingly awards it first place among U. S. cities for vices both elegant and depraved...
Tall, handsome Professor Stanley Cobb, Dr. Deutsch's superior in Harvard who referred to his assistant's remarkable success, told how he had treated a 21-year-old girl who suffered from extremely rapid breathing. When she was a year old she had fallen into a cesspool and, in addition to shock, had contracted pneumonia. When she grew up she went to work for an asthmatic woman, whose condition made the girl more susceptible to psychiatric asthma. After 15 treatments by hypnosis, during which Dr. Cobb suggested that she breathe slowly, the girl was cured...