Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four hundred dollars will now go to the Grenfell Mission to pay the summer expenses of three Harvard men, one embryo dentist or doctor, and two undergraduates. The Grenfell Post in Labrador is famous all over the world. Its forces have been bolstered up every summer by amateur volunteers who are willing to pay for the privilege of service that runs from the hard physical labor of unloading provisions to curing Eskimo diseases. Although the new plan is frankly an experiment, and if it fails, the disposition of the fund will go back into the hands of the Cabinet; still...
...eyes fading and weak, Eva Tanguay 58, famed oldtime vaudeville singer (I Don't Care!) was found hobbling around on a crutch in her bleak Hollywood cottage. "Arthritis," she explained to a newshawk. "First I became blind. . . . Now my eyes are better, and my knee is worse The doctor says I will be able to walk again. . . . Doctors always tell you that." Pursing a cramped smile, she mumbled "Please tell them that Eva Tanguay is all right. Or say nothing-that's better. Say that I will be back on the stage, if you want-back by Christmas...
...described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works but dealing with an Austrian doctor and an American girl whose love affair was entangled in the affairs of the Austrian Nazis...
...from the brink of death." Pendennis Jones is a midwestern girl, married to an Englishman, who expresses herself in slightly dated wisecracks, bears a considerable family resemblance to the character of Brett in The Sun Also Rises. Sending her husband packing, by some measures not disclosed, Pendennis visits the doctor, talks politics with him, tells the story of her life, becomes his mistress. The story of her life reveals that her mother had been killed in a fall from a horse, for which Pendennis' twin brother was responsible, that her brother had hanged himself...
...love affair of Dr. Prochaska and Pendennis involves much political talk, a skiing trip on which they light fiery crosses and evade the authorities, a night in a mountain cabin where the doctor ministers to a sick child, the bombing of a news paper office. Their idyll ends somewhat inconclusively with the assassination of Chancellor Dollfuss. Having left the doctor suddenly, become mixed up in homosexual circles in Vienna, Pendennis realizes that he will need her when she hears of the failure of the Nazi putsch, starts back for Feldbruck. They do not meet again...