Word: chiropodists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father's Pain. His interest began with a pain in his father's foot. His father, a doctor, suffered from metatarsalgia (a pain between instep and toes). His medical colleagues did him no good, but an oldtime chiropodist helped him. Said Lewi's father: "Maurice, someday it may be your opportunity to let the doctors know the value of foot care." That was in 1876, when Maurice was a medical student...
...sweet-natured, spirited, unaffected girl, and unquestionably a talented one; she also has the makings of a big, popular movie star. She already gets 2,000 fan letters a week. Among them there have already been twelve proposals of marriage, and a proposition from an Indian chiropodist which is the ultimate sort of accolade a movie star must get used to. Would Miss Simmons be so kind, the Indian fan asked, as to send him a photograph of her feet, and a sliver of toenail...
...Chiropodist lingo for corns and calluses, feet, athlete's foot, deformities of toes...
Pictures of her torso have adorned the snouts of U.S. fighter planes over Buna; U.S. sailors named her "the girl we'd like to have waiting for us in every port." In the five years since Producer-Aviator Howard Hughes found her in a chiropodist's office, she has been ardently and endlessly photographed in silks and rags, in bathing suits and blankets, lying, sitting, lifting, leaning, dangling, stretching...
...Dogs. In Manhattan. Lieutenant Charles Brantingham, podiatrist-chiropodist of the U.S. Naval Training School at Hunter College, said that of 2,000 WAVES examined, only 15% had normal feet...