Word: dykes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the diseases conquered by sulfanilamide are puerperal sepsis (childbed fever), gonorrhea, meningitis, and streptococcus sore throat. Last week in The Lancet Dr. Sidney Campbell Dyke, consulting pathologist at the Royal Hospital at Wolverhampton, and his assistant, Dr. G. C. K. Reid, reported that tablets of a new sulfanilamide compound, M. & B. 693, short for 2-(para-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine, had brought about a "speedy recovery" in eight cases of lobar pneumonia...
...story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director W. S. Van Dyke II and $2,500,000 are probably an unbeatable combination in any language. Even for Hollywood's most extravagant moments, the scale on which this picture was produced remains gargantuan. It is equipped with 5,500 extras and 98 grand-scale sets. It runs for two hours...
Hunters, fishermen and lovers of the great outdoors are seldom defensive about their tastes; in fact, they are usually a little patronizing toward persons who do not share them. But in the days of Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking after a period in the woods, of sick men who got back their health stalking deer...
...TIME. They harped on the fact that they read it from "cover to cover" (see p. 4). One of the first to use the phrase was Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Among the other early enthusiasts famous enough to turn young editors' heads were Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Van Dyke, Newton D. Baker, Mrs. Elizabeth Marbury, Thomas Edison, Archbishop Michael J. Curley, Bernard Baruch, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Joseph Hergesheimer, Henry Ford, Elbert H. Gary, Herbert B. Swope...
...friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read from the Psalms and from Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy (Nelson Eddy is no kin), recited the Lord...