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Some men were found to have chronic digestive troubles and a few showed signs of lung trouble. A follow-up system is adhered to in the case of men whose abnormalities persist, and such cases are given close and proper treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORCESTER NIPS ILL HEALTH EARLY | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...surely chronic boredom one can't brook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/5/1927 | See Source »

...which might make a stirring novel, instead of a deadly dull, if the characters were convincing. Miss Gale's are incredibly and painfully fictitious. Her style, suffering since Miss Lulu Bett from chronic realism and acute poetic indigestion, is scarcely to be recommended as a model of lucidity to students at the University of Wisconsin, of which she is a Regent. An explanation of her elusive theme may be that Miss Gale has lately been concerned more with spiritualism than with literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...remained for a son of my own college to take the palms, two Morris chairs, and the family silver. He was more than good: he was better. Although his diction shows contact with chronic dyspepsia, his range is excellent. In truth when he eclipsed high C. I. was ready to compare him with the Romanticists of the Early Pleistocene. Nor does he lack gesture. He should illustrate for Milt Gross. His name? I think it is Sheridan. And like his great namesake he has rivals...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/8/1926 | See Source »

...THOMPSON, V.P. The Reese Advertising Agency Inc. New Orleans, La. Unpopular Prof. Sirs: I read your magazine every week for the simple reason that it is an assignment by my government Prof., a young Ph. D. of about your calibre. I'm just wondering if you are chronic razzers. . . . We are still high and dry out here and are going to stay that way. BRUCE R. HINSON Norman, Okla. Snooks Sirs: I have noticed your interest in names which can be spelled forward and backward, and now I appeal to your fairness and squareness to print the truth about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 6, 1926 | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

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