Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of this short notation [advising mothers not to hover over their children in dentists' chairs-TIME, May 27], I have been severely taken to task by a San Antonio mother, judged rather harshly and fatherly by a Los Angeles fellow dentist . . . and lastly . . . taken to task by many of the parents of my young patients. . . . They seem bewildered at the stated change in my temperament...
Venality, it must be added, extends to Americans too. The desire to grab and run is almost universal in Shanghai today and transcends racial and national lines; the faith that prompts long-term investments is lacking. An American dentist, who came to practice in Shanghai, sold his dental equipment for more profit than he could make in a few years of practice, and went home. A foreign businessman who bought a house for 13,000 U.S. dollars last fall sold it recently for 136,000 and has gone home to retire. The first 1946 Chrysler sedan to arrive in Shanghai...
...dentists gave three silent cheers last week for Dr. Walter C. McBride, an intrepid fellow. Dr. McBride, director of children's dentistry at the University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...
...With a dentist's drill, he cut out a piece of the shell, inoculated the thin membrane inside with infectious material, sat back to study the results through a tiny "window" of melted paraffin and cover glass. The fowlpox virus throve. Subsequent tests with smallpox vaccine showed that one egg would produce enough to protect 1,000 children for life. Word of the new technique spread throughout the scientific world...
...Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous as it was for her to smoke...