Word: doctorates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live under the Russians," she explained. "At first, you don't see anything evil. The pressure comes slowly, incalculably-until suddenly you know you must die or flee or betray." Last night Frau K. sneaked back to her town with little hope. She and the doctor can have no promise of being flown to the West...
...left the camp healthy and cheerful. He returned some ten days later, insane, cut, burnt and bruised . . . He died insane, though Colonel Odura, the commandant of the camp . . . got his own Japanese doctor to try to save his life...
...three boys didn't show up at their San Antonio high school that Monday. Their explanation: a few nights before they had been so severely paddled at a high-school fraternity initiation that they had been under a doctor's care...
When Disraeli caught a chill and took to his bed in 1881, Queen Victoria was deeply worried. She asked who was taking care of him and was told that Disraeli's doctor was a homeopath.* The Queen was even more worried; she suggested a consultation with regular doctors. But medical etiquette forbade any orthodox doctor working on a case with a homeopath. Eventually the Queen raised such a fuss that both schools of doctors got together long enough before Disraeli died to agree that he had bronchitis...
...King's health bore the name of Dr. Horace Evans, 46-year-old member of the orthodox school. Queen Mary named Evans two years ago as her second physician, next to Weir; ever since, she has been saying loudly that she thinks he is the most brilliant young doctor in London...