Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time-night and day. Our principal topic of conversation was the Polar Controversy. I spent considerable time with him in the oil fields of Wyoming and Texas, and when he is in Chicago I see him every day. Surely this intimate relationship could not have endured unless the Doctor was right. F. P. THOMPSON, M. D. Chicago...
...Townsend, serene in the conviction of his messianic destiny, they apparently meant only that he had rid himself of two pushing, self-willed associates who had been trying to edge in on the power & glory which rightfully belonged to him. Promptly the 69-year-old onetime country doctor popped out with a "plan of democratic management" for Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd. which he said he had been preparing for months. Hereafter, said he, a seven-man board of directors would "assist me in completing the final chapter of the history we are writing for a better day." Furthermore...
...until this year considered his heir's marriage to a Cuban commoner a sin against the royal house of Bourbon. Soon as the young people had their pantry filled and their curtains hung, they summoned Dr. Pedro A. Castillo, a general practitioner, to diagnose the rump pain. The doctor suspected an abscess caused by a hypodermic injection which the young man received just before leaving Europe...
...Oshkosh, Wis., Mrs. John Putzer, 41-year-old wife of a WPA worker, gave birth to her sixth pair of twins, won a pair of beds from a local cinemansion which had offered one bed to the mother of the first baby born after the opening of The Country Doctor. Said fruitful Mrs. Putzer, mother of 17: "We never pick names now until we know how many we're going to need...
...present Sapolio factory at Manhattan's Bank and West Streets stands on the site of a plant built by Enoch Morgan in 1844 after a number of prosperous years in the soap business his father-in-law started in 1809. Sapolio itself, named by the Morgan family doctor, was not manufactured until 1869 by Enoch's three sons. Its world-cleansing career began in 1883, when a high-powered adman named Artemas Ward* was hired to push Sapolio sales. Adman Ward took a cake of greasy, gritty soap and put it in almost every grocery store...