Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time) his last words as he left. "I hope you croak," he cooed broken-heartedly, "and I hope it's me as does it." And then for all these years he's never come back. And Grandma lay there on the bed, snarling so patiently, biting me, biting the doctor, even biting the bedposts for practice. I did so want for Grandpa to come home...
...then there came a time when we knew that Grandma would never see another Spring, never be able to lean out of her sunny window and spit at the children in the park again. She was growing visibly weaker, and began to miss the doctor with the chamber-pot almost every other visit. There was only one bed left in the house. And Grandpa never did come...
...doctor was a great comfort to me when she died. Whenever my courage faltered, or got tired of holding the chloroform bottle, he was always there with a word of encouragement or advice, always helpful, always a perfect gentleman...
...Permission to pass through quarantine without pausing for medical inspection, if the ship doctor radios ahead that he has no serious disease aboard (TIME, Sept. 6 et ante...
...buyers are Mr. George F. Havell & friends. Onetime circulation manager, business manager and then managing editor of The Forum, Mr. Havell is a magazine "doctor" well able to acquaint himself with The Digest's ailments. As soon as Messrs. Shaw bought the Literary Digest, Mr. Havell became its publishing consultant, put his own money into...