Word: doe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Doe had a hernia 15 years ago-and he still talks about his operation. It was certainly something to remember. There was that terrible three weeks in the hospital: the retching, agonizing hangover when he came out of the ether, the two weeks flat on his back (not eating, not sleeping) and his belly a constant, burning torment. Months after he was back at work, he felt something like a big hole where the scalpel had slit his muscles; and for years he looked with awed distaste at the lumpy, four-inch scar on his abdomen...
When Mrs. Doe had to have the same operation last week, Mr. Doe was understandably upset. He was sure that she was in for all the horror he had endured. But he was wrong...
First of all, Mrs. Doe was not rushed to the hospital the night before her operation. Because she was tired, nervous and rundown, her doctor put her in the hospital three days early. She had time to rest up; the hospital staff had time to make blood tests, check her heart, get acquainted with her mental and physical state, know her as both person and patient. Mrs. Doe came out of the anesthetic with no nausea; after a day's rest she was sitting up. After two days she began to walk; in a week she was home...
...John Doe drove a Cadillac, worked in an air-conditioned office and smoked 75? cigars. When John died, the undertaker (whose card described him as a "mortician") came to talk over the arrangements with his widow...
...Doe's position, the undertaker quietly suggested, should certainly lie in a sheet-bronze casket with a quilted satin lining. Of course the widow would want the body to be on view in the "reposing room" before the ceremony. The service could be held either in the "chapel" or in a regular church, whichever she preferred, but it would be a great comfort to know that her late husband would be laid away in a vault of waterproof cement, guaranteed to give protection "not for years, not for life, but forever." The whole thing would come to about...