Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the plodding champion of the Roosevelt colors was leading by several lengths. The young challenger was gaining ground, when he suddenly had to go to bed with stomachache & fever. His doctor declared that when the governor was in Louisville his drinking water was poisoned. To gather himself for the stretch run this week and next, he retired by ambulance to the executive mansion at Frankfort over the weekend while Candidate Barkley paused for breath at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville. Mrs. Chandler and Daughters Mimi and Marcella pinch-hit at Happy's meetings. Said loyal Mrs. Chandler...
...they please," has long been a stock figure in Chicago's news. Once she had Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand arrested when her bubble burst. During the Hauptmann trial she circularized a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. Recently Mrs. Spencer split with her doctor-husband and he went to live with their older daughter, Mrs. Mary Belle Wright, 19. Last week, shy little Dr. Spencer died, and his wife again made news. Marching to her daughter's home, she demanded the dead man's clothes. When she refused to leave they took...
...Ridge Plan, Headmaster Bonner says: "I am simply advocating that the system under which a boy is asked to do his work shall not be as irrational as a system which would require of an adult that he be a lawyer from nine to ten o'clock, a doctor from ten to eleven, a stock broker from eleven to twelve, and an author from twelve to one. It is my unalterable conviction that under such a system all but the rarest adult would be foredoomed to failure in all capacities, and do his best work in none...
...last, heavy-lidded, questioning look of a dying patient proved more than young Dr. Joseph Martin Swindt could bear. Like many a conscientious general practitioner, he believed he had made a faulty diagnosis. He never wanted to be a doctor, anyhow. He wanted to be a writer. Sombrely, Dr. Martin got into a bus at Chino, Calif., east of Los Angeles, traveled 500 miles to a seashore inn north of San Francisco. And there, before poisoning himself, he wrote a long "thesis on death" to his wife and two young sons at home. The "thesis" lay beside his body when...
...ward of the Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil by the up-to-date, scientific treatment of cracked...