Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't you tell them you were a reporter and save yourself, your family and your paper all this anxiety?" the amazed doctor asked. Said Hearst Reporter Bernard, no less amazed: "Why, that would have spoiled the whole story...
...self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...
...that afternoon to find 60 pickets from the Artists' Union and from the Barnes Foundation at Merion, Pa. plodding grimly before the various entrances. Their signs proclaimed that "New York has 36 WPA art exhibits in one week -Philadelphia only ten in a year." That evening the dynamic doctor got the jump on reporters by suggesting that they, too, picket the museum and the Art Project "in protest against the Fascistic way it is being operated." When he heard this, Director Kimball relaxed his dignified silence for the first time to say that "Argyrol" Barnes's complaints were...
Last week the Doctor's rubbish burst into flame when he cried to a meeting of Philadelphia's Leftist People's Forum: "If you are really interested in painting go out and raise hell at the museum. ... If the time ever comes when we can lead ? mob maybe we can take it away from them...
...patient has measles the doctor may be able to shorten its course or make it less severe by injecting: 1) blood serum from someone recently recovered from measles, or 2) an extract of human placenta...