Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wise surgeon," warned a wise 13th century surgeon, "will refrain from stealing while he is in attendance on a patient." Other maxims for medieval physicians, who found Hippocrates rather hoary: impress the patient by diagnosing his condition before examination, always tell relatives the case is very grave, assume that a fast pulse only means worry over your fee. Last week British physicians were chuckling over dozens of such memories, recalled in Call the Doctor, by Ernest S. Turner, a frequent Punch contributor whose previous social histories have deflated the egos of British reformers, admen and Blimps...
When the service ended, an honor guard of Marine aviators carried the body of ex-Marine Tyrone Power, 45, from Hollywood's Chapel of the Psalms to a grave in Memorial Park Cemetery. Major Power deserved the attention; he had served his country well during World War II. As an actor, he had been better than many of Hollywood's handsome heroes. As a private citizen, he had certainly been no worse. But in paying its last respects to a man it genuinely liked-he had died in Spain on the set of his latest movie, Solomon...
Back in Hollywood, most of the crowd had left before Linda Christian and Ty's two daughters, Romina, 7, and Taryn, 5, laid a 5-ft. cross of white gardenias on the grave-which was all right with Debbie. "Ty belongs to me now," said Debbie. "Whatever anybody else does is of no concern to me any more." Said Linda, "I am happy for her if she can find peace in that belief...
Blackwood's composition, performed by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony, was grave, withdrawn, and emotionally muted to a kind of rasping, wearied monotone. It nevertheless revealed Blackwood as a skilled technician and a stoutly original musical thinker. The winner of a recording project prize last season, the symphony will be released commercially by RCA Victor...
...Quite frankly," he told Parliament, "my government accepted the constitution as drawn up in the United Kingdom with grave misgivings." He introduced a bill that would enable the government to amend key clauses of the constitution, not by a two-thirds majority in both Parliament and the regional assemblies, but by a simple majority of the Parliament alone, where he controls 80 out of 104 seats. The present arrangement, he blandly explained, made it much too easy for anyone "to challenge much of the legislation required for social improvement and industrial development on the grounds that it is contrary...