Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foundation of his great fortune in Pittsburgh coke ovens. Shrewd little Andrew Carnegie bought an interest in Frick Coke Co., made Frick a Carnegie partner in 1889. The partners never liked each other. It was not until 1900 that they broke in what was to be one of the classic feuds of U. S. industry. When Partner Carnegie tried to force Partner Frick to sell out on his own terms, Partner Frick chased him down the office building corridor. Thereafter both men were more or less free to indulge their hobbies: Carnegie, the Great Philanthropist ; Frick, the Art Collector...
These somewhat Grecian developments have had social Washington by the ears for weeks. Additional classic overtones were introduced by the fact that they paralleled the divorce of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. after 25 years of married life...
...professorial chairs being stuffed with industrial moneys, unorthodox belief being roughly wiped out by college officials under pressure from above. The whole era of Mencken, Babbitt, the hip flask and the Charleston is seen with as great a clarity as that afforded by Mr. Allen's now almost classic "Only Yesterday". This part of Wechsler's book is a vivid and illuminating bit of journalistic history...
...Caesarean section, for removal of a baby from the womb by means of abdominal incision when normal delivery is dangerous or impossible, is one of the most famed and spectacular of major operations. The classic Caesarean involves an incision from the umbilicus to the pubis, through the abdominal wall, peritoneum and uterine wall. The Caesarean section is named for Julius Caesar, who by legend was thus delivered from his mother. First actually recorded Caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by a Swiss pig-gelder on his wife...
Marx's domestic life was constantly troubled. "The classic theoretician of money," says Biographer Mehring, "could never quite make his own tally." Once the family lived for ten days on bread and potatoes. Once Marx could not leave the house because he had no clothes. Once, after a publisher had agreed to take one of his books, he could not raise money enough to mail the manuscript. In five years three of the children died, Marx suffered from piles, boils, indigestion, liver trouble. His wife broke down after the death of her favorite son. In this, as in most...