Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hands, one of which was laid open; at the same time, he twisted to avoid the running chain and hurt his back badly. He wrapped up his hand in a handkerchief and loaded the truck, but he couldn't unload it because his back hurt too much. "Saw a doctor after I'd put up with it for a week, and he popped my back into place so's I was able to unload it." Has he ever had back trouble since? "No, never...
What keeps the two so fit? Certainly not romance. The doctor has an eye for the well-turned ankle ("Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department") but marries respectably. The lifelong bachelor Holmes has neither chick nor child. "Women are never to be entirely trusted," he believes, "not the best of them...
...Wodehouse remarks, "The tragedy of life is that your early heroes lose their glamor . . . with Doyle I don't have this feeling." All Sherlockians would agree. After all, they are looking at their own dreams. That is why the detective and the doctor can never go out of style. And why, in 2087, they will still be as quotable as the day they were born in 1887: "Come, Watson, come! The game is afoot!" And why they will still be the subjects of criticism and appreciation 100 years from now. For Holmes, every reference is a boost. As he wrote...
...When a doctor finally persuaded her uncle and guardian to find a healthier place, she was installed in a New Jersey "preventorium," an institution where pretubercular children were supposedly toughened up by studying and sleeping in the open air, even in midwinter. Eventually pronounced "cured," the child was first taken in by a white-haired aunt who taught school and believed in iron discipline. And then by her stiff-necked guardian, who lectured her on her father's improvidence and insisted on a budget for her 25 cents weekly allowance: 5 cents for school supplies, 5 cents for the church...
...embassy battles began over Wahid Gordji, an interpreter and the son of a doctor who tended the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini during a Paris stay in the late 1970s. French officials sought to question Gordji about bombings that killed eleven people and injured 161 others in Paris last year. Though Gordji has not been charged, he has reportedly been linked by police to a Lebanese who has been charged with complicity in the bombings. French authorities suspect that Gordji may be a leader of an Iranian intelligence network. Police surrounded the 19th century sandstone embassy after concluding that Gordji...