Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week on Easter Sunday a canonization ceremony, for which he had been conserving his waning strength, brough aged Pope Pius XI into St. Peter's in Rome for his first public appearance this year. With his doctor hovering nearby the Holy Father sat for two-and-one-half hours on the pontifical throne, looked well, if thin, and spoke clearly. Before him knelt three consistorial lawyers, pleaders for three saints whose visages and deeds the people beheld upon great banners in St. Peter's-Andre Bobola, Polish Jesuit (1592-1657), Giovanni Leonardi Italian founder of a religious...
Upshot was that Mr. Manson reconsidered. Last week Brancusi's egg and Arp's shape rested, duty free, in the bright little gallery of Guggenheim Jeune. Meanwhile, sprightly J. B. Manson had regretfully announced his resignation, at 58, as director of the Tate Gallery. Said he: "My doctor has warned me that my nerves will not stand any further strain. ... I have begun to have blackouts, in which my actions become automatic. Sometimes these periods last several hours. . . . I had one of these blackouts at an official luncheon in Paris recently, and startled guests by suddenly crowing like...
...world in large-faced type. But to every action, according to physics, there is a reaction; and after every stimulant, whether caffein or marijuana, therefore, comes a let-down. Perhaps it is slight; perhaps the effect is scarcely noticeable; but there is an effect. Taking caffein pills without doctor's orders might well lead to insomnia and general irritability. This certainly is no way to finish an evamination, nor is it the easy path toward resumption of studies. On the contrary, the ensuing let-down may prove scholastically lethal...
Closest check on the flow of U. S; money, blood stream of the nation's economy, is kept by the Federal Reserve Board, and it publishes weekly reports fully as baffling to the average citizen as a doctor's statistics on blood pressure. Last week the Federal Reserve Board reported an increase of $65,000,000 in the total of money in circulation ($6,394,000,000) whereas $24,000,000 is the regular rise for that time of the year...
...which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought a hat, a dress, a pair of shoes, a new typewriter. Said Moberly's mayor: "It's the biggest thing that has happened to this town...