Word: careful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julie Harben was a pale, pretty, South African girl with a bad limp, a big sister and an overwhelming fear of the world. London doctors took care of the limp, a prim precise Londoner married her big sister, but Julie's fear of the world was harder to get rid of. In Julie, Francis Stuart traces the process in a straightforward book that is notable for its characterization of a 15-year-old girl, especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish...
...International Red Cross was founded 75 years ago as an agency to care for wounded war combatants. Last week, at the quadrennial Red Cross conference, originally scheduled for Madrid, then shifted to London, the fighting soldier received little attention. Instead, the main conference topic was the protection of the noncombatant man, woman & child in time...
Last winter British Columbia maintained with federal funds a few "concentration camps" for unemployed. This spring the camps were closed, the men told to care for themselves, and offered transportation home. Instead of leaving, they made common cause with British Columbia's "native" unemployed, agitated for a public works program. Their demands unheeded, late in May 1,200 men- all single-moved into three Vancouver buildings...
...miles which includes New York City and adjacent sections of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut live 11,000,000 souls bound together by economic and social ties. Among their many superlatives, the inhabitants of this megalopolis support the greatest medical community on earth-814 hospitals and other agencies for care of the sick, which can hospitalize 70,976 bed-ridden patients at one time...
...such level of eloquence and penetration as James's monograph, Author Armstrong's biography is nevertheless written with care and understanding. Her subject is a "natural," and, thanks to the fact that she quotes liberally from Fanny Kemble 's own vivid journals, the result ably suggests the reanimating qualities that inspired James's enthusiasm...