Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian hairdresser who filled her trunk with useless sport clothes; a mechanic and his wife; about 25 common seamen and lobstermen. Another bad mistake de Boers made before setting out from sunny St. Malo, France last May was to skimp on coal...
Merrill Moore, like William Carlos Williams, is a doctor who also professes poetry. A rich, restless Boston psychiatrist who likes long-distance swimming and long-distance sonnet-writing, Merrill Moore has written so many sonnets (50,000) that he habitually thinks in blocks of 14 lines. Since his 18th year he has written an average of five sonnets a day, and as many as 100 in four hours. This month he published a few of them: M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets (Harcourt, Brace...
...compelled to sign the following statement: "As a Jew, I regard myself as a guilty accomplice of the Jew Grynszpan, who murdered Third Secretary vom Rath." Each morning they were put through the following catechism, varied according to their profession or trade: "What were you?" Answer: "I was a doctor." Reply of catechist: "No, you were a quack and thief." The same question and answer were repeated until the prisoner answers: "I was a quack and thief." A merchant was compelled to reply: "I was a swindler." and a hand worker to reply: "I was a dumb Jew without brains...
...Diet, but actually the German majority there was holding a plebiscite to return to the Reich. As in regular German elections, the opposition did not dare to campaign. The United Memel German Party won easily, claiming at least 26 of the 29 Diet seats. Said 50-year-old Horse Doctor Ernst Neumann, Führer of the Memel Germans: "We are still Lithuanian State citizens in name, but inwardly we no longer have any connection with Lithuania." Adolf Hitler did not think that last week was a propitious time to take over Memel...
Died. Dr. William Moore Guilford, 106, oldest U. S. country doctor; of pneumonia; in Lebanon, Pa. Dr. Guilford's recipe for longevity: "Choose a hardy, healthy and long-lived grandfather...