Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither the deathly plight of a Houston baby with water on the brain, nor a speedy flight by Air-Champion James R. Wedell, nor an operation by Johns Hopkins' Brain Surgeon Walter Edward Dandy is in itself important news. But the combination of all three last week on the front page of the nation's Press gave the country a stirring drama of death defeated by human effort...
...Press drew a statement from Dr. Dandy, who, like every reputable physician, hates to have his private practice dragged out into the limelight. Said Dr. Dandy: "The condition is dangerous and not uncommon, but is not necessarily immediately fatal. There is a continual flow of spinal fluid into the brain cavity, and hydrocephalus is caused when there is an obstruction, bringing about a backing up of the fluid in the brain cavity. We will have to operate to form a by-pass to allow resumption of the free flow of the fluid. Such an operation is dangerous, of course...
...brain truster recently remarked, increased consumer purchasing power does not cause recovery, it is recovery. What the country needs is purchasing power. And that is what the country is getting; that is what is meant by an unbalanced budget, by a steadily rising public debt...
...Republican high command last week took steps to consolidate its new position preparatory to the opening of Congress Jan. 3. First digging-in occurred in the office of Oregon's Charles Linza McNary, the Senate's minority leader. Slim of body and quick of brain, Senator McNary is personally popular with all factions of the G. 0. P. To his rooms in the Senate Office Building went two rich, prominent and ambitious Republican has-beens, onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills and onetime Ambassador to France Walter Evans Edge. After a morning of strategy discussions, they...
...because Charlotte, the hereditary Princess of Monaco, was interested in them. When Col. Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who had been putting on Russian opera in Paris, went down to take it over, Princess Charlotte was ready to finance him. Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss asylum. But there was handsome Leonide Massine who, if not so great a dancer, was a better maltre de ballet, a more brilliant choreographer. And there was Leon Woizikovsky who had done many of Ni- jinsky's roles (Harlequin, Petrouchka, the faun...