Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan and the Hoergers of Miami Beach - submerged into celebrity. The last two families at least seemed particularly likely to account for themselves creditably in the future. Erna (21) and Elizabeth Kompa (20) are so much alike that they are usually mistaken for twins. They both have secretarial jobs, doctor sweethearts, a taste for radio concerts which leads to bickering because Erna prefers Wagner, Elizabeth Tchaikovsky. Daughters of a German mining engineer who arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago, they started to swim at Manhattan Beach in 1928 when their father got a job as night clerk...
...opinion to which it referred ... I found it in these words: 'General Hamilton and Judge Kent have declared in substance that they looked upon Mr. Burr to be a dangerous man, and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of Government.' The language of Doctor Cooper plainly implies that he considered this opinion of you, which he attributes to me, as a despicable one; but he affirms that I have expressed some other still more despicable; without, however, mentioning to whom, when, or where. 'Tis evident that the phrase 'still more despicable...
...correct a naughty child Dr. Kanner advises the parents, doctor or other supervisor first to learn what physical ailments the child may suffer from. Tuberculosis may make a child cranky. Dr. Kanner mentions a little boy who flew into "violent passions" after he had been run over and hurt by a heavy wagon...
...happens to be hers. From that point on, experienced cinemaddicts are not likely to derive much suspense from watching the artist's serious romance with Miss Major endangered temporarily by the jealousy of a mistress (Mady Christians) he is trying to discard and the rage of an elderly doctor (Frank Morgan) who discovers that his young wife (Virginia Bruce) was really the subject of the nude portrait. As a substitute, they may derive amusement from scenes like the one in which "Poldi" Major breaks in on the duchess' petulant gardener to tell him about her conquest...
...slaves and suffers over her work, cuts and revises in her striving for narrative smoothness and speed. A great admirer of the work of her friend Naomi Mitchison, painstaking historical novelist, Author Baldwin confesses to serious intellectual interests, would rather be "a biologist, an obscure scientist, an actress, a doctor, an explorer" than the most rapidly rising U. S. writer of popular magazine fiction...