Word: doctors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Walter Johnson, still 25 pounds underweight from influenza, left St. Augustine to have his kidneys examined. "You may have to take a rest, Walter," said the doctor. Friends, fans, hearing the news, were worried, remembering how Christy Mathewson, the only pitcher as famed, as great as Johnson, died of tuberculosis (TIME...
...DOCTOR'S DILEMMA-Bernard Shaw's oldtime bitterness against the cheery little man with the black satchel (TIME...
...fitful canvases. Finally, he leaves home, finds a job in the coal mines near Johannesburg. When he hears that his mother is threatened with cancer, he blows off three fingers of his right hand so that he can collect insurance money to send his mother to a reliable doctor in England. That is the end of the story...
...DOCTOR'S DILEMMA-Bernard Shaw revived by the Theatre Guild, looks sourly at a sawbones (TIME...
...writing a book to show that all the world is Christ and is suffering on the Cross, to the hotel proprietor's wife who, after a life of scrubbed floors and emptied cuspidors, is soother in the arms of death by the kisses of an understanding doctor. The book is sane and almost completely damnatory, but one is left with the thought that, after all, Sherwood Anderson is hopelessly and rather endearingly American...