Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bills at the famed Park Hotel, Ambassador Lall knew well that the hotel's underpaid staff would be expecting tips when he left. So one day recently before rushing to catch the Ankara Express, he armed himself with a handful of crisp banknotes to take care of them. Sure enough, when he checked out, there was an expectant echelon of busboys, waiters, doormen, bellmen, telephone girls and elevator operators all lined up with outstretched hand by the hotel desk. Racing for his taxicab, the diplomat slapped a bill into each eager hand along the line and finally reached...
...paddyfield on the village edge, stretcher bearers brought in wounded for relay to Tsaolaochi. About a dozen men in various states of shock and pain lay on the ground. Fresh bandages reeking of alcohol seemed their only care-no plasma or morphine. They suffered stoically. A battalion commander, his throat and shoulder torn by shrapnel, retched helplessly. Another man had a broken ankle bare in the chill air, propped up on a wad of straw...
...hard-won freedom from studio dictates, she now freelances and chooses her roles with meticulous care (she has read and rejected over 100 stories this year). She has just finished The Heiress for Paramount. Her great ambition is to play Juliet on the stage (Max Reinhardt's suggestion for her). She is frankly delighted with The Snake Pit: "Thank God that...
None Measures Up. Most attendants, Deutsch complains, are not trained. The patients are too often merely guarded like prisoners, too rarely handled like patients. One attendant, at Napa (Calif.) State Hospital boasted cheerfully to Deutsch: "Who says we don't take good care of them? This man has been here for 40 years and he is still going strong...
...American Psychiatric Association has set minimum standards for mental hospitals: at least one psychiatrist for every 150 patients, one graduate nurse for every 40, one attendant for every eight, an outlay of at least $5 a day per patient for food, care and treatment. Says Deutsch: "Not a single state mental hospital in the U.S. meets, or has ever met, even the minimum standards set by A.P.A. in all major aspects of care and treatment." The current average in state mental hospitals, he says, is $1.25 a day per patient...