Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CITADEL-A. J. Cronin-Little, Brown...
Aimed at the whole precept-and-practice of the British medical profession, The, Citadel is a brilliantly bitter attack by a man in dead earnest. Says Author Cronin: The small-town English G. P. (general practitioner) who does everything from confinements to corn-cutting has no time, soon no desire, to keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing...
Year ago this citadel of British aristocracy was shaken when an "unprincipled young bounder" from Cambridge University hoisted atop the Squadron's masthead a pair of frilly, pink panties...
...Corporation by corporation John L. Lewis' organizing drive captured positions in these two great open-shop industries. By last week it had gained about two-thirds of Motors, better than half of Steel. Last week the United Automobile Workers were storming at the gates of Motors' inner citadel, Ford Motor Co. The Steel Work ers Organizing Committee, having cap tured biggest U. S. Steel and most of the small fry, was pounding at the defense of three big steel independents: Republic, Youngstown, Inland. On both fronts there was blood and brutality. On one there was Death...
...citadel of priceless antiquities and such Old Masters as only millionaires can buy, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art was long regarded as a costly tomb in which no contemporary art could live. A fund of $150,000 was established by the late George Arnold Hearn, who subsequently added another $100,000 in memory of his son Arthur Hoppock, to change all this. In the past ten years 85 paintings by living U. S. artists have been bought by the Metropolitan. Last week a significant addition to this catalog was announced: an oil by William Gropper, oldtime cartoonist...