Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reward Later. On a Boston-to-Philadelphia train, Bostonian Charles J. O'Malley found a wallet containing $1,000, returned it to its owner, was promised free service by a grateful undertaker...
...been widely unread. They reflected the scientific interests of their author, a physician, teacher of anatomy at Harvard, dean of its Medical School. Recently a psychoanalyst made the suggestion that Holmes's novels were perhaps the most original and significant of all his works, establishing the wiry little Bostonian as the godfather of modern psychoanalysis. Holmes, he found, discovered the "unconscious" (sometimes called "subconscious") 25 years before Sigmund Freud...
Wonderland's customers seem not to care. The admission price is cheap (25?), the atmosphere breezy, the races honest. Moreover, when a Bostonian "goes to the dogs," he knows he is salting away something for somebody's (if not his own) old age. The State of Massachusetts uses its dog-track "take" for its Old Age Pension Fund...
Besides the usual barrage from WCOP and the Crimson Network, during this past weekend Bostonian and Cantabridgian music publics were subjected to two concerts which will rival any of the entire season in everything from novelty to richness of performance...
Court tennis, the sport of kings, is almost as old as sport itself, but the game of tennis as played today is so young that one man's lifetime spans its entire history. Last week that man, prim old Bostonian Richard Dudley Sears, who helped establish the modern game of lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats...