Word: detested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anti-vivisectionists detest the American Medical Association, which swats them as though they were annoying horse flies. Mrs. Jeanie McCredie Matile of Chicago meant no pun when she declared that there was "a steadily growing revolt against the dogmatism of the A. M. A. by its own members." Dr. Alonzo Eugene Austin, Manhattan homeopath, occasional physician to John Davison Rockefeller Sr., not a member of the A. M. A., testified: "If it were necessary to tie these little animals down to get our experience of how to cure people, I'd give up the medical profession tomorrow. I have...
...father was a famed ophthalmologist. Stocky, long-haired; smooth, long, plump of face, bland of smile, his dark eyes have a Rudy Vallee droop. In law, then business, till he was 25, he took up journalism in 1914. Say his detractors: he is still at it. Says he: "I detest the historical novel. It perverts both history and fiction. My ideal is a portrait of unimpeachable documentary veracity, which at the same time is suggestive of a story." Author Ludwig has been married 27 years. Other books: Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, Goethe, Diana (a novel, TIME...