Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, while working on a farm, Vito Geneva was again stung by bees in the armpit. He went home, entertained friends, slept soundly, rose in the morning, collapsed. His doctor called for an oxygen tent, treated him for shock for five hours. Then Vito Geneva died...
...know what tantrums are. Actors, actresses, politicians and babies occasionally have them. ... I called in my personal physician, Dr. Bynacker, a horse doctor, and he told me it was practically the same thing as 'running fits' in dogs and caused in the same way. . . . Then it was the sunlight of understanding flooded my soul, and I knew exactly what caused Bilbo's tantrums. I remembered, as you remember, that he was living on a diet of sardines and crackers and cheese until we elected him to the Senate with a salary of $10,000 a year...
...devotion to Townsendism. When the votes were counted, Townsendite Andrews had a neat majority of 4,500. Since nomination is tantamount to election, he became the first man to win a place in the U. S. Senate in a campaign where he depended mainly on the California doctor's $200-per-month pension plan for oldsters as an issue...
Last week these pictures, partly in color, were shown to animal doctors gathered in Columbus, Ohio, for the 73rd annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Some 1,850 veterinarians talked shop, slapped backs, sang songs, waved aside the term ''horse doctor" as an obsolete vulgarism, heard scores of papers on such subjects as "The Pathogenesis of Ketosis" and "Infectious Enterohepatitis" gravely pondered the growing breach between sturdy practitioners on farm animals and city doctors who cosset socialites' pets. At the Ohio State Fair grounds there were expert demonstrations of tonsillectomy, caesarian section, amputation...
Holmes's importance was of a different order. A wise, worldly, witty old doctor ie preached the art of living, attacking in his satires and essays the New England vices of glumness, morbid introspection, self-righteousness, false modesty, urging his readers to unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with...