Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvey Gushing (p. 48, TIME, May 10) unquestionably is a "Brain Surgeon." He may be "quick-tempered," though you would hardly think it to see him entertaining his classmates at tea in his Whitney Avenue home, but he is not "Harvard...
Died. Jean Harlow, 26, platinum-blonde cinemactress; of cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), following acute uremia; in Hollywood's Good Samaritan Hospital. Christened Harlean Carpentier, reared in Kansas City, Jean Harlow became with Hell's Angels (1930), a top-rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went...
...Rome last week grey Richard Aldrich, 73, died of a brain hemorrhage. To hard-bitten compositors on the New York Times his death meant no more scroogy handwriting to labor over reverently. It also meant the passing of an institution. Richard Aldrich was one of the two deans of musical criticism in the U. S. The other dean, Critic William James Henderson, 81, of the New York Sun, wrote a fine tribute to the man who had been for 40 years his friend...
...most sensitive to drugs, said Dr. Taylor, and a majority of the 10,000,000 people in the U. S. who do not hear clearly may well blame their medicine cabinets and self-indulgences. Some drugs affect the ear itself, said Dr. Taylor; others the hearing centres of the brain. Most harmful is quinine, which has been found in the brains of deaf babies of women who took this drug to stimulate childbirth...
...otologist, Dr. Harold Grant Tobey of Boston made a cheerful point: "Deafness is not a common symptom of brain tumor...