Word: braining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half of Labrador's dogs have died from what Eskimos call "Molly coddy." The disease is a brain fever which the dogs catch from foxes. Some years the Eskimos will have to be more careful of their dogs than others...
...letter to Publisher George Gilray Young of the Los Angeles Examiner, William Randolph Hearst once (warningly) described Bishop James Cannon Jr. as having "the best brain in America, no one excepted." Last week Best Brain Cannon filed his third libel suit against Publisher Hearst and his newspapers, bringing the total damages demanded...
...apartment on the night before his first wife died; 2) that Bishop Cannon retained Attorneys Campbell Bascom Slemp and John Price to defend Bucket-Shopper H. L. Goldhurst, with whom the Bishop had dealt and who was subsequently imprisoned for using the mails to defraud. The Best Brain also ascribes to Publisher Hearst a carefully ordered campaign to involve him in the financial difficulties of his son, Richard M. Cannon. California schoolmaster...
Died. Mrs. Natalie Harris Hammond. 70, wife of Mining Engineer John Hays Hammond, mother of Inventor John Hays Jr., Artist Natalie, Composer Richard and Capitalist Harris Hammond; of inflammation of the brain; in Washington. Friend of royalty, diplomatic hostess (her husband was U. S. Special Ambassador to the coronation of King George V in 1911), she was with Engineer Hammond in South Africa. She fought for his freedom when, after Jameson's Raid, he was condemned to death by President Paul Kruger of the South African Republic...
...fatal." Regularity-is important. "Work a little every day at your subject. I mean that you should work 365 days a year at it, except during leap years. Then put in 366 days." Logical, loyal to efficiency, Pitkin gave up smoking when he found it was slowing up his brain work, advises others...