Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There were several other phrases attributed to the Doctor which he never used, but I never heard before of his denying the "stovepipe hat" phrase...
...heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...teamed in a dozen or more comedies, hitting their stride with pictures like Half Shot at Sunrise, Hold 'Em Jail, Hips, Hips, Hooray, skidding badly of late with Silly Billies, Mummy's Boys. Goggled, gaunt, aging Robert Woolsey completed High Flyers with a fever of 102, a doctor and nurse in attendance, has been ordered into retirement for at least a year. On his own again, younger, fresh-voiced Bert Wheeler is headed probably for the London Music Halls...
Last week at Lebanon, Pa., Dr. William Moore Guilford celebrated his 105th birthday. He began practice in 1852, is now the oldest U. S. doctor in point of service as well as of age. The University of Pennsylvania publicists, who snapped Alumnus Guilford up to exploit that institution's bicentennial celebration in 1940, claim that Dr. Guilford is the world's oldest doctor and the oldest graduate of a U. S. university. Still better publicity was the fact, that for Thanksgiving dinner Dr. Guilford ate turkey, two helpings of mince pie, took some wine, smoked an extra (fourth...
...Sears' Oyster Bay, L. I. home, Alfred Grouard was a faultless chef who in spare time read religious works, prayed, but never left the estate, never received a letter, visitor, telegram, telephone call. Year ago Alfred Grouard's health failed, but when Mr. Sears called a doctor, Grouard refused to be examined. Last February. Mr. Sears rented a room for his servant in a boarding house nearby sent Grouard there for "a good rest " Grouard never left the room. Last week when Landlady Theresa Harr found her boarder unconscious, she called two doctors: they told her that Alfred...