Word: 82nd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture of the criminal so described. The face was mine. Next day, police officials confessed the error, denied that I was the criminal wanted." Elihu Root: "Last week, a few days after my 82nd birthday, when I had refused to be interviewed, Rumor cried I was dead. Servants, at my home, No. 998 Fifth Ave., Manhattan, told newspapermen I was accustomed to sleep late." The Rev. Canon Frederic Lewis Donaldson, first Socialist ever to become a Canon of Westminster Abbey: "In Barnet, suburb...
...Root has other problems than foreign debt settlements. He is watching his 82nd year flicker defiantly; he sees the Permanent Court of International Justice (World Court), which he helped to found in 1920, bandied about between Senate reservations and counter reservations (TIME, Oct. 4.). He hears politicians and editors, young enough to be his grandchildren, say that World Court membership for the U. S. is becoming impossible; he reads that the Official Spokesman (Mr. Coolidge), young enough to be his son, thinks the international outlook is gloomy. Perhaps Mr. Root is sitting at a desk in his Manhattan home writing...
Last week the American Institute of Homeopathy met in 82nd annual convention at Philadelphia; the American Osteopathic Association in 30th annual convention at Louisville, Ky. Famed John D. ("Bonesetter") Reese of Youngstown, Ohio, was made a "Druid" by the American Gorsedd. All are groping toward methods of keeping humans well, of getting them healthy, once diseased. Homeopathy. The homeopaths still have two medical schools, the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia and the New York Homeopathic Medical College of Manhattan. They have faculty representation at the Universities of California and of Michigan and at the Boston University School of Medicine. Every...
Music. All psychiatrists who attended the 82nd convention of the American Psychiatric Association in Manhattan last week knew that music which "soothes the savage beast," is also a sedative to the insane. Perhaps it is memory echoing up through a file of sea-rocked protoplasm. Certainly music, as well as rhythmic, beating surf, is calming...
...mist-streaked course, restless with suspense and excitement. Sixteen jumps obstruct the Aintree Course, 14 of which must be twice crossed before the finish. Annual efforts are made by well-intentioned groups of the British public to reduce the number and the rigor of the hazards. At the 82nd Grand National only one horse finished without a fall...