Word: docs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mornings the knives sometimes tremble in his hands. He smokes too many cigarettes. This again is not heroic. People are sick and people are poor and other people take care of them. This, too, is stinking and sweaty. And yet in the town shopmen call him "Doc" and slip an extra carton of cigarettes in his box of provisions. In mud time when the Ford slips into a pot hole, a team is hitched on to the front "ax" and the farmer forgets to ask for his three dollars. It really is not very understandable...
...whose house they could not wait to begin was Dr. Henry Franklin ("Doc") Cutler, who had been Mount Hermon's principal since 1890. Dr. Cutler was (and still is) reputedly able to call every one of his old boys by name. During the last fortnight many and many of the 14,000-odd alumni of the school were saddened, for as "Doc" returned from a tour of 35 Mount Hermon clubs between Northfield and Chicago it was announced that he would retire at 70 next month. Dr. Cutler will travel in Europe with his third wife who was a member...
...Northfield Schools, took his wife and three children off to Edinburgh, where he is now taking his second degree. When he returns to become Mount Hermon's principal he may sit on his front lawn, look across the Connecticut River at Northfield Seminary for girls, and like "Doc" Cutler reflect: "If the boys want to get over there, they've got to swim...
...illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...
...tractor-drawn truck. creaking beneath the weight of 6,000.000 pacifist signatures, hove in sight of the Conference with 15 women seated upon it, each waving a Peace Flag. This tribute the Conference received. Also the Conferees began to refer informally to the U. S. female delegate as "Doc," a tag fastened upon Delegate Mary Emma Woolley, Litt. D., by the irrepressible Will Rogers. To the Press "Doc" said: "I never yet have met a difficulty out of which a way could not be found. Some-thing more than a paring here and there is needed to bring real peace...