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Agreeing with Harris' contention that "the more medical insurance the better," Berry nevertheless rejected the "trade union" epithet. He stated that the A.M.A. is genuinely afraid of a trend toward government medicine, and that it therefore opposes any program which will increase government participation in medical organization...
...often serves tea in her small Chauncey St. apartment. When she lectures she seems to tell her historical story as much for herself as for her intent listeners. Seldom dramatic or humorous, her own quiet enthusiasm carries her talk and one admiring student pronounced what has been a lasting epithet: "Aha," he said, "A female Mcllwain...
...Horace, pursuing high aims at high altitudes, bigamy is a mere narrow-minded epithet, and the feelings of his Wilmington wife (Martha Scott), on hearing the Philadelphia story, are to be placated by friendly words and a few flowers. Necessarily, there are bourgeois complications. Yet, as played with gusto by Burgess Meredith, Mr. Pennypacker is no less a devoted family man for having one family too many, and no less a man of principle for having principles all his own. The whole play is geared to the level of farce; but though the level is sustained, the leverage falters...
...what he accomplished, but for the noise he made, Senator Joe McCarthy was the most discussed man of 1953. His name became an epithet to millions, a cheer to countless others. In 1953, McCarthyism crossed the twelve-mile limit and became an international word, widely understood around the world to mean a cynical exploitation of genuine fears, a studied contempt for fair play, a cunning talent for concealing failures by loudly baying after new victims. Too many abroad, urged on by a U.S. press that would leave no word of McCarthy unrecorded-no matter how outlandish-took him as their...
...historians have ever tried to defend "Bloody Mary." Roman Catholic Historian Hilaire Belloc sought to soften the impeachment by showing how bloody was the age in which she lived and how well-deserving of the same epithet were "Bluff King Hal" (her father) and "Good Queen Bess" (her half sister). But none has succeeded in presenting Mary against the background of her time with quite the acumen and diligence of H. F. M. (for Hilda Frances Margaret) Prescott, a sometime Oxford lecturer and novelist (The Man on a Donkey-TIME. Sept. 22. 1952). First published (under the title Spanish Tudor...