Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...develop the Chungking-Chengtu route. Diary notes, written on back of weather reports, describe a primitive area where transportation has jumped from sedan chairs and wheelbarrows to airplanes. His passengers were Chinese merchants and military men, women going for operations, an American explorer aiming toward Tibetan Mountains, a German doctor, a U. S. Congressman hunter, a reclamation engineer, a woman archeologist, a Chinese envoy of British government carrying 110 Ib. of silver to Lhasa...
...Great Power; in dextrously pitching the issue of war on such grounds that the white race in general feels the future of the League of Nations to be at stake in the future of a Museum of Peoples in Africa; and in impressing even his own French doctor with his courage, his elevated moral stature and his peculiar genius for browbeating Ethiopians while he charms foreigners. Emperor Haile Selassie emerged in 1935 not only as Man of the Year but as the world's own inimitable "Little Charlie" for as many years to come as health sustains...
...story begins in the reign of James II, one of England's best-hated kings. When a young doctor named Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is found treating a wounded rebel, he is summarily convicted of treason, sent to Jamaica to be sold into slavery with a group of other James-haters. The island's No. 1 slave-buyer is Colonel Bishop (Lionel At will), a savage sugar plantation owner who runs his cumbrous mill with slave power. Peter Blood is promoted from the mill when he successfully treats the governor's gout, but he does not forget...
Church folk throughout the U. S. began telegraphing Secretary Perkins. The Federal Council of Churches brought Dr. Kagawa's plight to the attention of President Roosevelt. Promptly, on the third day of the good doctor's stay at Angel Island, the President at a Cabinet meeting told Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau and Perkins to get busy. In two hours the State, Treasury and Labor Departments evolved a legal arrangement whereby Japan's No. 1 Christian would get a seven-month visitor's permit on condition that he be constantly accompanied by a doctor or nurse...
...Challenger Euwe drew closer. His opponent's moves, as recorded on a dummy board, offended attending chess experts who thought Alekhine's daring an open slight on the Dutchman's talents. Disconcerted by their caustic mumblings. Dr. Alekhine won a three-day respite from the Dutch doctor. When he returned to play, neither his rest nor his mascot cat, which sniffed the board before each game, could stave off Dr. Euwe's determined efforts. In the 25th game, Alekhine sacrificed two pawns in the opening, hoped to snare his opponent's queen. Watchful Dr. Euwe...