Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actor Jiggs was the most tractable animal ever filmed. He earned as much as $100 per day with Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan pictures, with Crooner Crosby in Doctor Rhythm. In his last film. Her Jungle Love, with Dorothy Lamour, his hind parts proved too brilliant hued for Technicolor. The studio tried tights, but Jiggs tore them off. Finally Cosmetician Max Factor succeeded in toning down the offending spots...
...throngs around the villa grew larger. When they stopped a village cobbler to get a good look at a size 7½ Garbo shoe, Garbo was angered. That evening, in a voice loud enough to be heard well beyond the villa walls, she ordered the servants to have a doctor handy-"in case anyone is hurt...
...what was reported as a generous $200,000-only one percent of what the Literary Digest had been valued at in its prime. Merged with the Shaws' Review of Reviews as The Digest it did no better, was taken over four months later by Magazine "Doctor" George F. Havell and a syndicate of friends. They restored the old name Literary Digest, but little of its old revenue or prestige. Last week it suspended, paid up its employes, announced that it hoped to reorganize and resume publication in a fortnight...
Speaking of doctors, he said that they are often accused of being narrow-minded, but claimed that the remedy for this situation was for a prospective doctor to take a non-medical specialization in college. In a more general vein, Dr. Bock mentioned that men would have to work hard to get real worth of their college course--that it took a ton of raw material to give an ounce of pure gold...
...examination in the basic medical sciences of a specialty, as well as in the clinical, laboratory and public health aspects; and 5) spent at least two more years in study or practice. In other words, after 1940 it was to take a man five years to become a doctor of medicine and five more to become a specialist...