Word: blurbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Medicine," as the blurb sings, "has taken R. S. to the four corners of the earth": to Serbia (typhoid epidemic), France (World War I), Russia (famine and cholera), Mexico, China. In Serbia he met a Bishop who entertained himself each morning by taking shots at an old rabbit on the hillside. He wouldn't let R. S. shoot; he was afraid R. S. might hit the rabbit. On the boat to Mexico he made friends with Hart Crane, "a generous, warmhearted person, obviously drinking hard because of intense unhappiness." R. S. loved liquor, France, poetry, music, ribald talk...