Word: doctors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zeppelin, her cabin lights aglow, settled to a lower level. Lady Grace Drummond Hay peered from a window, cried, "Hello," waved her hand. The landing crew, 450 in number, grasped the landing lines, slowly drew the ship to the ground. Four years to the day it was since Doctor Eckener landed the Los Angeles in the same place. Straining at the lines the landing crew pulled the ship to a resting-place in the hangar, beside the Los Angeles. It was 5:39 o'clock. One hundred eleven hours had passed since Friederichshafen...
...known to few, I being so modest, but I hold an honorary degree of F.F.D. from the Electoral College--Doctor of Fenomenal Forecasting. So mine is the last word on presidential problems. At this point an impertinent CRIMSON editor has accused me of bluffing. He insinuates that though I know all about football I am the veriest dub on matters presidential. So I'll give you the inside dope on New England--just to show this fellow. Cut this out and paste it on your mirror. The morning after election you can wire me your congratulations (prepaid, please...
...Chicago from his Western stumping trip. He had had two days' rest at home, in Kansas, but was still "very, very tired." Nevertheless, he said to the Speakers' Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...
...ambulance chaser is a lawyer's tout (hireling, doctor, nurse, policeman, friend, acquaintance) who persuades an injured person to hire the lawyer to sue for personal damages...
...hard time for the activities may be a passing phase, and they may be forerunners of worse. But to call in the dollar as the doctor is a step which is still ahead, the wisdom of which must be carefully weighed...