Word: accoucheur
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...Dull. Mystery and myth have surrounded the home life and sex habits of the possum through four centuries. Now, in a new book called Possum (University of Texas Press; $6), complete with elaborate recipes for possum and 'taters, Dr. Carl G. Hartman, "pioneer possum embryologist and accoucheur," tells...
Last week the Egyptian Government reacted by sending a sharp note to Angora, demanded an apology from Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi who used to be an accoucheur. Expert at handling both excited women and excited governments, Dr. Rushdi suavely replied that there had been no insult. "The banquet hall was somewhat overheated," he alibied, "and President Kemal merely invited His Excellency the Egyptian Minister to remove his fez for his own greater comfort...
Snappy was the word exactly to describe General Ismet Pasha, Turkish Premier as he stepped from his private car, immaculate. Behind him trudged Turkish Proxy No. 2 whom no valet could make snappy ? peering, stoop-shouldered Dr Tewfik Rushdi Bey, Foreign Minister. Once an accoucheur, the patient, fumbling Tewfik wears high-powered spectacles with the thickest lenses in all Turkey. He, by six years of astute diplomacy, has made the Soviet Union small Turkey's fast & firm friend. While a Red Army commander stepped forward to greet General Ismet, Tewfik talked with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov winced...
Last week in Berlin-the distinguished Yuichi Iwase, Accoucheur in Ordinary to the Japanese Empress, was commanded by cable to return to Japan and at once booked a ticket for Tokyo, where he is Professor of Obstetrics at the Imperial University...
Died. Sir John Williams, 86, accoucheur at the birth of Edward now Prince of Wales, Emeritus Professor of Midwifery at University College, London; at Aberystwyth, Wales...