Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pietro, he turned his knife aside in traditional opera style, accidentally slashed Basso Joseph Sterzini between the thumb and forefinger. Sterzini pooh-poohed his wound, wanted to finish the scene. Tibbett, his friend for 15 years, had a tourniquet applied and sent for Joseph Siegel, the Metropolitan's doctor. Dr. Siegel found that an artery had been cut and sent Sterzini to the hospital. There, five hours later, Basso Joseph Sterzini died. Hospital authorities said: "Shock resulting from the stab wound . . . may have affected an already diseased heart and precipitated the cardiac attack." Police speedily exonerated Baritone Tibbett...
...savage example of fee-splitting, Dr. Hays recalled: "About a year ago a Bronx doctor called me. He said that he had a case of mastoiditis, a child, and would I operate. This was on a Saturday, and the doctor suggested that the operation be performed the following Monday. I asked what temperature the child had. He said, 103°. I told him that he must be crazy if he didn't think that the operation should be performed right away. 'Well,' said he, 'we have to make an arrangement.' The 'arrangement...
...Philadelphia suburbs he has the world's most elaborate private astronomical observatory. His 28½-in. telescope, installed in 1932, is the most powerful possessed by an amateur. He has been privileged to call himself "Dr." Cook since last June when the University of Pennsylvania made him Doctor of Science. Gustavus Wynne Cook is president of South Chester Tube Co. and of South Chester Terminal & Warehousing Co., director of a national bank, two trust companies, a sugar refinery, an abrasive wheel factory. Most of his fortune he made from the tube company, which manufactures oil well casings and pipelines...
...that is not too thick for intelligibility, offers the most illuminating glimpse of Ireland's fight for home rule thus far included in Hollywood's dossier on the subject. Good shot: Fluther's technique in a barroom fight- fantastically complicated footwork, accompanied by no blows. A Doctor's Diary (Paramount) is a savagely derisive expose of conventional medical ethics, fairly screaming the sort of hospital anecdotes which upright members of the profession refrain even "from whispering. Its casting is as daring as its contention. Producer B. P. Schulberg has staffed it almost entirely with unknown players...
After telling the many ways in which pain may be relieved by the onward march of modern science, the doctor emphasized that "there will always be pain," that "many people demand it," and that "pain is by definition ordinarily distressing...