Word: bobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bobs sex determination again (TIME, July 9), and will bob up until it is settled. Now Dr. Isaac Fried, CzechoSlovakian savant, after extensive experiments in Prague and under Professor Devraignes in Paris, asserts that he can diagnose the sex of a child four months before birth. His method is based on a blood reaction similar to the Wassermann test, but no further details are vouchsafed. The French Academy of Medicine appointed a committee of inquiry. Dr. Fried is probably a reputable scientist, but cranks innumerable have flourished on this same subject. Vide Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas, "Psy.D., Ph.D.," of Rochester...
Died. Thomas Forrest, 71, ex-pugilist, one time sparring partner of John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsimmons, at Coney Island, N. Y., frozen in his shack. Once wealthy, he lost his money. Friends obtained a shack for him, children of the neighborhood bought him a stove, firemen supplied his meals...
...novelized, will be published by Doubleday, Page & Company on December 14. The setting of the story is an old Connecticut farm where big Dave drudges cheerfully from sun up to sun down to care for his mother, the all but heavenly twins light-hearted, golden-haired Mary and Bob who goes to college and spends the small surplus bank account with contemptuous carelessness. The story is concerned with the necessity of making a bitter decision and a sacrifice...
...William C. Procter, Ivory soap man, "angel" of the Leonard Wood campaign in 1920, and "Bob" Wolfe, newspaper proprietor of Columbus, O., both arch enemies of Harry M. Daugherty, visited the White House. The President is openly trying to patch up the Republican split in Ohio. Otherwise he has small chance of securing a block 'delegation from Ohio to the Republican Convention...
...occasion was a solemn celebration of the Fifth Anniversary Congress of the Woman's Department of the Communist Party, and the place was the Russian Free Opera House in Moscow. Here were assembled the Sovietskie Barishnee,?Soviet Ladies, blondes and brunettes, matrons and bob-headed girls, Soviet wives and Soviet employees, humble peasants pressed in typical clothing, Girl Communists (Woman's Legion of Russia) dressed in high boots, short black leather skirts, black leather tunics, red handkerchiefs tucked effectively into breast pockets, and little toques decorated with red rosettes, Here and there in this poppy-field of color were...