Word: bernards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco surgeons, Walter Bernard Coffey, 62, and John Davis Humber, 35, of the Southern Pacific (Railroad's) General Hospital, able men both, deliberately told the newspapers that they were using extracts of the adrenal cortex on human cases of cancer, with promising results. Editors naturally "played up" their story, and readers, as naturally, inferred that here was a definite cure for cancer. They rushed in multitudes to San Francisco. Last week Drs. Coffey and Humber could not attend the hordes of miserable comers who applied for treatment at the General Hospital. Many they found it necessary to treat...
...Bernard. Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime brewer, owner of the Yankee Baseball team, entered his Hercuveen Satellite but was beaten by Pythagora Junior of Berncrest Kennels...
Jolted by the suicide of Robber Spiers, London papers gathered reactions from famed Britons. Said George Bernard Shaw: "Every judge imposing a sentence with flogging ought to have two or three doses himself to bring him to understanding...
Married. Gloria Gould Bishop, daughter of the late Capitalist George Jay Gould; and Walter McFarlane Barker of Chicago; in Manhattan. He is her second husband. They were married in the Domestic Relations Court by Judge Bernard J. Douras, father of cinemactress Marion Davies...
...Author. Author James Joyce celebrated his 48th birthday last fortnight in Paris. To him came a congratulatory telegram signed by his great & good friends Author James Stephens, Lord & Lady Astor, Playwright George Bernard Shaw. After the birthday dinner Joyce went to the Opera, heard Tenor John Sullivan sing William Tell. Passionately fond of operagoing, Author Joyce always sits in the front...