Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most outstanding among the handful of U. S. doctors who show some compassion for the English language is Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Editor Fishbein has a wit which he likes to sharpen at the expense of quacks and of others who displease him...
To check the avalanche, control the "verbal diarrhea," "mental exhibitionism," and "itch for advertising" of many medical writers, Sir Robert suggested: 1) "strict birth control in regard to new journals," strict "suppression" of many old ones; 2) tougher editing ("almost everything is too long"). Above all, he said, there should...
As for the literary quality of medical writing, Sir Robert continued, "Many papers on medical psychology, biochemistry or iatromathematical [medico-mathematical] subjects might . . . just as well be written in Chinese. . . . American medical literature . . . exhibits only too often an absence of any sense of style or even of grammar. . . . We are...
Said Ben Marshall, famed 18th-Century English sporting artist: "I can sell a man a print of his horse for 50 guineas, but a print of his wife brings only 5." With this sage precept in mind, a group of Manhattan socialites set out to organize an exhibition for the...
Sure to hit popular taste amidships was World-Famous Paintings, based on questionnaires to 31,000 Wise customers asking for their favorite paintings. For $2.95 the reader got the 100 most popular choices in color, a running-fire commentary by Artist Rockwell Kent. Unprecedentedly huge was the first edition of...