Word: beechers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Warren's historic operation. After reverent visits to the famed Ether Dome, now a medical shrine, the scientists settled down, in a huge tent pitched outside the hospital, to a three-days' appraisal of the ether century. The consensus, as summed up by Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher, Massachusetts General's anesthetist in chief: Anesthesia "was perhaps man's greatest and most original discovery. . . . If, at a stroke, the world's poverty were to be wiped out, this would hardly be greater than the fact of clinical anesthesia...
...BEECHER SPEES...
...Madison Square Garden, fought Lou Ambers, Tony Can-zoneri, Henry Armstrong and the top welterweights of the late '30s, made $60,000 in four years. As befitted his new social position, he began wearing banana-yellow sports shirts and stylish checkered slacks. But he still trained at Charlie Beecher's smoke-filled poolroom in East New York...
...Navy wife in Washington, listening to the radio, recognized the lyrics. Her Annapolis-trained husband, Captain William Gordon ("Slim") Beecher, who commands a destroyer squadron in Tokyo Bay, wrote them. Mrs. Beecher remembered that some of her husband's 116 previous compositions had done well-his Song of Old Hawaii had been a 1938 hit. Passing up no bets, Mrs. Beecher visited the copyright office next...
Anna was a more subversive influence than anyone knew. She read Uncle Tom's Cabin to the slaves. Her favorite pupil among the King's wives, Son Klim, signed her letters, "Harriet Beecher Stowe Son Klim." Once Anna found the wives bidding for an 18-months-old white baby girl, the child of a native woman and an English sailor. Anna bought both mother and child for $72 to save them from slavery...