Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...traveled thousands of miles by coach, bumped over "corduroy" roads, put up at strange cabins and hostels. She talked and listened to statesmen, slaves, Abolitionists, jailbirds, men, women & children, in the East, West and South. From New Orleans she sailed up the Mississippi on the Henry Clay to Cincinnati. She was fascinated by the "sudden and overwhelming . . . perils of this extraordinary river" where "snags," "planters," and "sawyers" might "at any moment pierce the hull." Along the huge river she saw hundreds of miles of cotton and sugar fields. "[What] vast materials of human happiness," she wrote, "are placed...
...city' we had to cross ditches and stiles. ... I was taken by surprise at finding myself beneath the splendid [Capitol], so sordid are the enclosures and houses. . . ." Washington, she decided, "is a grand mistake." She believed the capital was likely to be shifted any day to more central Cincinnati...
...through a precision machine which exposes it to ultraviolet light for a few seconds, then returns it at once to the veins. The new treatment was presented by Drs. George Miley and R. E. Seidel of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College before the Pan-American Homeopathic Congress in Cincinnati...
Ohio-born Buck Crouse started off as a cub reporter in Cincinnati, long ago wound up his newspaper career as a columnist on the New York Evening Post. Besides writing books (Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives, Murder Won't Out), he was for five years press agent for the Theater Guild. Chided by his employers for not getting enough publicity for Maxwell Anderson's Valley Forge, he defended himself by reporting that he'd managed to get George Washington's picture on 2? stamps...
...singular and ideal" healing ointment for severe burns-long sought by good physicians-was announced last fortnight by Dr. Thomas F. P. Walsh of Chicago's Mercy Hospital. He spoke before Cincinnati's Institutum Divi Thomae, * whose staff, directed by Dr. George Speri Sperti, produced in their laboratory the ointment Dr. Walsh tested in the hospital. Dr. Sperti believes that the research work which produced the new treatment will "go down in history as second to none other, including the work of Pasteur...