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He was prone to making self-congratulatory bon mots about his own taste in fashion and clothing accessories and frequently went out of the way in the middle of conversation to list the brand names of the articles of clothing he was wearing.
Wagner-Jauregg advocated a racial hygiene ideology, influencing students such as Alexander Pilcz, who went on to author a standard handbook on racial psychiatry critical of Jews for being prone to mental illness.
It is unclear as to how his name mutated into razzle, but his gin parlour was renowned for the amount of alcohol consumed, and that after he went bankrupt his family moved to Sussex, where they became renowned as being prone to overindulge.

went and on
Morgan filled the dipper from the water bucket on the shelf, went back into the front room, lifted the girl's head, and held the edge of the dipper to her mouth.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
He stood on the porch and watched him struggling with the heavy harness, and finally went over to help him.
I went to the hall in the afternoons only, on these preliminary matters.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.
Joyce went on, `` When we'd finished, Lou -- Mr. Thor -- asked me to stay a little longer.
She went on:
There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.
But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.
Then he calmly and carefully slugged the remaining five shots into the venomous head -- caught in the wicker back of the chair, the eyes dead on him as the life finally went out of the brute.
`` Anyway '', Waddell went on.
`` Why '', he went on, `` when Rob asked me if he could make his dive on this trip, I didn't think twice about it.
`` You know what they say about two deep dives in one day '', Artie went on, still twirling the snorkle and studying it intently.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
He went on to use objects -- hoops, poles, capes -- which he employed as extensions of the body of the dancer, who moved with them.
I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.
even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.
`` This is a horrible way to live '', Wright went on.
The parents compromised, however, on a convent school and Paula went to Ursuline Academy in London, Ontario.
`` Yes '', Gross went on, `` Bang-Jensen was an up-and-coming young man.

went and stomach
In 1923, an elderly man who was diagnosed in the Mayo Clinic with inoperable stomach cancer went to an ERA practitioner, who declared him " completely cured " after treatments.
In May 1912, Michael went to Copenhagen for the funeral of his uncle King Frederick VIII of Denmark, where he fell ill with a stomach ulcer that was to trouble him for years afterwards.
Unable to stomach food, she went into a decline and died soon thereafter.
When she was 27, she went to Freud, seeking treatment for vague symptoms including stomach ailments and slight depression related to menstruation.
He was suffering serious pains in stomach and vomiting and went to see the Canadiens ' physician David Mulder, who, after several tests discovered the cancer.
During her illness she stated that she wanted nothing more than to be able to work, and, ( consumer reporter to the end ), once mentioned in an interview that, as far as her cancer went, " the treatment is worse than the disease ", but her health continued to deteriorate until her death in New York from stomach cancer in 1994.
Sprake joined Leeds as an apprentice, and made a last-minute debut in 1962 when the regular goalkeeper went down with a stomach complaint on the day of a game at Southampton.
The tubes went through his nose and directly into his stomach.
Cho Pyong-ok went to America for a stomach operation but died of a heart attack in the States.
She went to bed the night of January 17, 1943 and experienced the worst stomach pain yet.

went and better
He was sure that he could do better if he went to Atlanta to get the deal financed.
`` Chickens have short memories '', the doctor remarked, `` that's why they are better company than most people I know '', and he went on to break some important news to Alex.
He may or may not be `` better off '' than his classmate who went on to a college and professional school.
Of the two, Porter is justly the better known, for he went far beyond the vital finding of fiction for films to take the first step toward fashioning a language of film, toward making the motion picture the intricate, efficient time machine that it has remained since, even in the most inept hands.
And then off he went so casually, to someone else with breasts better developed, more obvious in a lower-cut dress, someone without a mouthful of wire bands and an inability to find words that would hold him.
As soon as he felt better, he went back out to his room in the pool house and the downward spiral continued until his death.
Researchers such as Marvin Minsky would write computer programs in languages such as LISP to attempt to formally characterize the steps that human beings went through, for instance, in making decisions and solving problems, in the hope of better understanding human thought, and also in the hope of creating artificial minds.
Over a million Guatemalan emigrants went to the US in the 1980s and 1990s for a better life mostly because of the Civil War.
Despite the step up, his scoring exploits continued and he was runner-up only to Ian Rush in the goalscoring charts the following season and then went one better as he was the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 with 24 goals.
Most of the studio's better movie scripts went to these men, and Bogart had to take what was left.
" Although Edmund went out of his way to declare that the story of Father and Son was " scrupulously true ," Thwaite cites a dozen occasions on which either Edmund's " memory betray him — he admitted it was ' like a colander '"— or he " changed things deliberately to make a better story.
Both termini began life as fairly modest affairs, but in order to cope with increasing demands both went on to much bigger and better things in later years, a new Potsdamer Bahnhof, destined to be Berlin's busiest station, opening on 30 August 1872 and a new Anhalter Bahnhof, destined to be the city's biggest and finest, following on 15 June 1880.
Whereas the previous five Rush albums sold platinum or better, Hold Your Fire only went gold in November 1987, although it managed to peak at number 13 on the Billboard 200.
The increased velocity meant that new problems arrived, and so bullets went from being soft lead to harder lead, then to copper jacketed, in order to better engage the spiraled grooves without " stripping " them in the same way that a screw or bolt thread would be stripped if subjected to extreme forces.
Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until being forced to leave in 1978, after then-Vice President Saddam Hussein told him that it's better to leave ( the two countries would fight a bitter eight year war 1980 – 1988 only a year after the two reached power in 1979 ) after which he went to Neauphle-le-Château, suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa, apparently not seeking political asylum, where he stayed for four months.
The Teen Kings went to Memphis and although Orbison had grown weary of " Ooby Dooby ", Phillips wanted to cut the record again in a better studio.
This adventure went no better than his earlier stint in Starfleet as Paris was soon captured by Starfleet while piloting his first mission for the Maquis.
The Colts finished a distant second in the West to the Packers in 1966, and in 1967, with the NFL divided into four divisions of four teams each, went undefeated with two ties through their first 13 games, but lost the game and the Coastal Division championship to the Los Angeles Rams on the final Sunday of the season — under newly-instituted tiebreakers, Los Angeles won the division championship as it had better net points in the two games the teams played ( the Rams win and an earlier tie ).
In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.
Though Carmichael-Smyth was from a distinguished Scottish military family, Anne's grandmother went to extreme lengths to prevent their marriage ; surviving family letters state that she wanted a better match for her granddaughter.
Two years later, for the better settling of the colony, he went in person, fortified and furnished it with things requisite for defence and trade.
The process began as early as the late-17th century, before the time of major social unrest, when small groups went in search of better agricultural opportunities.
In July 2007, one month after the release of Michael Moore's film Sicko, Rudy Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, attacked the health care plans of Democratic presidential candidates as socialized medicine that was European and socialist, Giuliani claimed that he had a better chance of surviving prostate cancer in the U. S than he would have had in England and went on to repeat the claim in campaign speeches for three months before making them in a radio advertisement.

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