Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians at Aduwa. Ras Gugsa's father kept up the family feud against Menelik and his grandnephew, Ethiopia's present Emperor, was on the best of terms with the Italian administration in Eritrea. When he died three years ago it was in the arms of an Italian doctor. With his last breath he made his son Gugsa swear eternal friendship to Italy. Well aware of all this has been Emperor Haile Selassie. Some years ago to keep Ras Gugsa and his 15,000 warriors in line, the Emperor married the Tigre Chieftain to his second daughter...
...days later and while restoring himself to Miss Herries graces draws her attention to his wife and child who await him without, in the full sense. At this moment his starved spouse faints and Miss Herries has her brought into the house while Abbott, the young beggar, summons a doctor. Mrs. Abbott cannot be moved, the doctor says, so Miss Herries is forced to put the Abbott's up. Gradually Abbott assumes control of the house and it soon becomes evident that he is the leader of a gang who aim to realize profit on the sale of Miss Herries...
...proud and good-natured backwoodsmen were pictured retreating more and more deeply into a wilderness that seemed as homey as a village street. Mrs. Rawlings' second novel deals with the same region, but pictures along with the natives a queer group, composed of an English remittance man, a doctor and his son, a female orange grower, evidently intended to typify unhealthy sophistication. As in South Moon Under, the drawling natives, with their profound knowledge of the secret ways of the country, and their strange talk, filled with phrases like "right smart" and "hit's a pity," carry conviction...
...connected with various colored educational institutions for the past 16 years and is at present field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will speak for the affirmative. Mr. Pickens received a Phi Beta Kappa key from Yale, and has since acquired the degrees of Doctor of Literature and Doctor of Laws from Fisk University and Wiley University. He was dean of Morgan College in Baltimore for five years, resigning in 1920 to work with the N.A.A.C.P. He is the author of five books, most of them dealing with the current problems of the Nogro...
...What doctor and hospital looked after...