Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When word swept around that Old Westbury's young Mike Phipps, playing at No. 1, had come onto the field, directly from a doctor's office, with his mallet wrist strapped to keep a loose tendon in place, it looked bad for Sonny Whitney's side. A few moments later it looked even worse when Sonny was cracked on the forehead by Cousin Jock's mallet, carried to a first aid tent to have the gash stitched together. But, like most poloists who refuse to be downed unless they are out, Westbury's Back...
...Roman Catholics hear little of the tremendous widening of modern Catholic theology in Europe. There the most influential lay Catholic thinker is a mild-mannered little Frenchman, Jacques Maritain, convert to the faith and professor at the Institut Catholique in Paris. Maritain is a follower of the great medieval doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas. In Neo-Thomism, based upon the monumental Summae of St. Thomas, Maritain sees the unique cure for modern ills. Seeking, like Karl Barth, to rescue civilization from humanism and revive pure Christianity, Neo-Thomism does not "annihilate man before God" (as Barthianism does...
...produced more bright children than dull ones; the southern States more dull children than bright; greatest preponderance of bright children was in the far West; biggest proportion of stupid ones in the South Central States (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama. Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas). Dr. Blair, whose doctor's thesis reporting his investigation was sponsored by Columbia University's Teachers College, offered no explanation...
...having a subconscious. Psychiatrists will deprecate this skepticism but will join the rest of the cinema audience in applauding Carefree's four dances. Astaire exhibits his skill with a niblick while tap-dancing furiously. Rogers eats too many rarebits and dreams she is dancing with her handsome doctor in slow motion. At a country club dance, Astaire and Rogers startle the patrons by dancing the Yam, no more senseless than the Big Apple, but suffering from the same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy...
Hesketh Pearson is an impressionable, aggressive English biographer and actor, a hater of psychology, politics, literary "style," for whom "two and two equal any sum that takes my fancy." This last credo has made his biographies (Doctor Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted...