Word: chronically
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Nearing the end of his fabulous career as a child actor, Jackie Cooper*, now 9, according to the Motion Picture Almanac, but so mature that gestures with his tongue will soon seem idiotic, makes Bill Peck a lovable urchin, sure to appeal to all chronic admirers of juvenile pictures. For making Peck's Bad Boy enjoyable also to less susceptible cinemaddicts, small Jackie Searl deserves the credit. A brat whose thin, disdainful, pasty face has made him villain in so many films that he has been called the Boris Karloff of his generation, he acts with his customary blood...
Died. Robert Fulton Cutting, 82, philanthropist, president of the board of trustees of Manhattan's Cooper Union, president of the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Co.; of chronic nephritis; in Manhattan. Manhattan's early '90s knew him as the "first citizen of New York." Reticent, he kept his philanthropies out of the newspapers, was a persistent foe of Tammany Hall...
...Smith girls are devoted to a grey-goateed, twinkly little Scotsman who as a boy ate porridge morning & evening and has had chronic indigestion ever since. He is William Allan Neilson, president of Smith since 1917, famed literary scholar, stanch liberal, editor-in-chief of the latest Webster's Dictionary. At 65 President Neilson is wise and witty, still likes to tease his tall, handsome German wife, look into almost everything that goes on in Northampton and the world...
After consultation the physicians, sympathetic with mid-Ohio's mores, decided that the most kindly thing was to call the affliction a chronic meningoencephalitis. That meant an inflammation of the brain and its membranous envelope. The man's loquacity was the outward manifestation of a brain unhitched and running wild. A course of artificial fever might corral his wandering wits. Again it might...
...whisks her along the coast of France on a 30-day inspection of gambling casinos; ties a discarded mistress in an armchair where she suffocates; goes to jail for murder; escapes after 13 years to rescue his daughter who has been convinced by her mother that she is a chronic invalid. It appears certain, when His Greatest Gamble ends, that Philip Eden will go back to jail and his daughter (Dorothy Wilson) will marry a bedraggled reporter (Bruce Cabot) who gives every sign of becoming as assiduously irresponsible as his father...