Word: ailments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked of as a future Prime Minister. But in years of trying to keep up with a mind that never tired, Stafford Cripps's frail body broke. He came down with tuberculosis of the spine and another ailment that his doctors described only as "rare and dangerous." In 1950 he retired to a sanitarium in the Swiss Alps. There, racked with pain, he waited, cool as always, for death. Last week, three days before Stafford Cripps's 63rd birthday, it came...
Died. Dr. Paul Klapper, 66, president emeritus of New York City's municipal Queens College, since 1951 educational consultant to the newly formed Fund for the Advancement of Education of the Ford Foundation; of a heart ailment; in Queens, N.Y. Rumanian-born Dr. Klapper campaigned tirelessly to 1) raise teachers' pay, 2) give them the dignity he felt the profession deserved...
Visiting Peking in the '20s, a wealthy Manhattan engineer named Guion M. Gest got relief from a painful eye disease, and picked up a hobby. For his ailment, Commander I. V. Gillis, U.S. naval attaché in Peking at the time, recommended an ancient Chinese eye medicine, concocted and sold by a Peking family. The medicine eased the engineer's pain, and he decided forthwith to begin collecting a library of Chinese medical books. In due time, Engineer Gest went back to the U.S., but before he left he commissioned Navyman Gillis to act as his agent...
Both Miss McGuire and her busty co-star overact. The former is cast as the daughter of a Long Island millionaire, a soft mouthed old gent portrayed by Louis Calhern with die-cut precision. Miss McGuire suffers from an incurable heart ailment, a part for which she is physically fitted. Her expression is one of such pain, however, that she might have been better cast as a girl correspondent shipwrecked in a leper colony...
...stream." Unlike his Scottish and Welsh patients, many of these newcomers were merely "idle, spoiled and neurotic," but young Dr. Cronin was too thrilled by success to care much about that "("I was, I assure you, a great rogue at this period"). For these new patients he invented an ailment named "asthenia" ("which means no more than weakness or general debility"), and soon his anti-asthenia injections were the toast of the town. "Again and yet again my sharp and shining needle sank into fashionable buttocks, bared upon the finest linen sheets. I became expert, indeed superlative...