Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prophylactic teams, each composed of a specially trained doctor, a nurse and a clerk, will work under Dr. Armstrong's general supervision. They started in the South where infantile first breaks out each summer and will rapidly work north...
...annual commencement of the J. Russell Young School of Expression this week in Washington. This school has no endowment, no buildings, but claims the White House grounds for its campus. Its function is to spot notable feats of word-spouting and to reward them with 50? diplomas, all "Doctor of Oratory,'' all cum laude or better. Its ceremonial dinner at the Mayflower Hotel brought 125 acceptances out of 130 invitations issued to Washington correspondents, three Cabinet members, one Senator (Pat Harrison), but no Representatives...
Unknown to most ocean travelers, every major liner carries a couple of coffins and its ship's doctor is a qualified embalmer. While ship captains by immemorial law of the sea have the right to order burial of bodies at sea, such is a non-sailor's horror of this type of burial that the bodies of persons dying aboard ship today are usually embalmed and turned over to authorities at the decedent's home port...
...Sigmund Spaeth ("Doctor" because he wrote a thesis on Milton's Knowledge of Music) advertises himself as "writer, broadcaster, lecturer, composer, arranger, general showman and entertainer." But he is best known as "The Tune Detective," points out in books and on the radio the similarity between I'm Always Chasing Rainbows and Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu, who can detect in Yes, We Have No Bananas elements of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean, I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Seeing Nellie Home...
Another new face was that of Pilot Henry T. ("Dick") Merrill, whose second two-way transatlantic flight earned him a Doctor of Aeronautical Science at Pennsylvania Military College (Chester). Prettiest new face was that of blonde Mary Lewis, a crack adwoman whose copy ("Buy American Cotton") for Manhattan's Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic...