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Word: doctorish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...before he left Washington, presently found it so bad in Geneva that he had to sit at home in his ornate, rented Louis XVI villa ("The Stimson Musée") wearing heavy woolen socks, a bathrobe and silken muffler. Meanwhile, Scot MacDonald's doctors were pestering him with doctorish demands that he "take three full hours of complete relaxation and visual rest every day." In this atmosphere of inaction, invalidism and frustration correspondents set down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Surprise? | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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