Word: symptomized
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Back to Epithets. "After election day in 1936 some of our supporters were uneasy lest we grasp the excuse of a false era of good feeling to evade our obligations. They were worried by the evil symptom that the propaganda and the epithets of last summer and fall had died down...
More Than a Secretary (Columbia) can best be diagnosed as a minor symptom of Columbia's current attack of whimsey. To test the curriculum of her business school, Carol Baldwin (Jean Arthur) takes a job as secretary to Fred Gilbert (George Brent), carrot-nibbling editor of a health magazine. When she falls in love with Gilbert, Carol decides to humanize him. He proves the efficacy of her humanizing by falling in love, not with her but with her dullest pupil, Maizie (Dorothea Kent). Getting this situation straightened out involves some of the most uneven comedy dialog of the season...
...another symptom of the breakdown of our economic system--the laissez-faire of the good Dr. Smith cannot function if the markets allow themselves to be unprotestingly victimized by shoddy goods. All good Republicans should unite in rising...
...symptoms were rather different, but in both cases they were connected with the highest parts of the central nervous system. Margaria suffered from headache for the rest of the day, and Haldane was affected in the same way; my own symptoms were no less definite, but were those of mental fatigue. The mental symptom lasted about two days...
Treatment: "Those who have had several recurrences, each more severe than the preceding one, and who are reduced to a state of unfitness for administrative duties should be permanently retired. Those who have had several recurrences and are kept symptom free only by grounding should be permanently grounded. Those who have no more than the initial symptoms should remain on flying duty only under the close continuous observation of a surgeon." Of Dr. Armstrong's 18 patients, two have been retired because of aeroneurosis, three are slated to retire, four have been recommended for ground duty...