Word: adoptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gallstones. Moreover, their husbands will probably take to drink or develop ulcers. These conclusions are reported by a Scottish physician in the eminent British Lancet. A painstaking Glasgow diagnostician, Dr. G. Gladstone Robertson did not go looking for patients to fit a prefabricated theory. Instead, he felt obliged to adopt the psychosomatic approach as the only way to explain the illnesses of hundreds of patients...
...trip to Europe to help forget his domestic troubles, Manhattan's bantam Showman Billy Rose, 52, confided to a London reporter that he would like to adopt two homeless European children. He explained: "When I married Miss Fanny Brice, she was one of America's great comediennes and very busy. When I married Miss Eleanor Holm, I was very busy." Why did he want children now? Was he lonely? Not exactly, said Rose. "At my age, most people are lucky if they have enough friends to go round one card table. Me, I've got enough...
Biggest surprise of the evening: Pioneer Zukor's speech, in which he put in an enthusiastic word for Hollywood's most feared enemy. Said he: "Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument...
...with this thought is mind that I wonder whether the Corporation will continue its age old policy of choosing presidents or adopt a new method of selection...
...Taft quickly shut off the only threat of an opening-day battle. Nineteen Senators, including four Republicans, had joined in an attempt to adopt an effective anti-filibuster rule. But neither Taft nor any other G.O.P. leader wanted to open the Republican 83rd Congress with a fight. On Taft's motion, the argument was put off until this week, with little chance that the 19, whose chief aim is to prevent Southerners from filibustering civil rights legislation to death, will get anywhere...