Word: green
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engraving union's tiny Republican Matt Woll, the Bricklayers' rich, potent Harry Bates. The man most likely to lead the new forces, when and if they break into power, is smart, Democratic Dan Tobin. It was open talk around the convention that he would go after Bill Green's job in 1940, striking a strategic bargain meanwhile with Hutcheson & Co., who are none too pleased with wishywashy Mr. Green...
...riverboat life of the Central South; the innocent art of John Kane, who put the steel mills and freight trains of Pittsburgh on canvas for the first time and who took machinery in his stride. "Look at those trains!" he said, as he painted Turtle Creek Valley with the green hills and the red brick houses in the background, beyond the smoky railroad yards. "Look at those trains, gaily defying me to paint them right...
Married. Elizabeth Jane Kern, 20, photogenic daughter of top-flight Composer Jerome Kern and handsome Richard Alan Green,* 25, Hollywood director, brother of Orchestra Leader Johnny Green; in Manhattan...
...hopes to use the magnificent resources of the Institute for large scale clinical work in 1) multiple sclerosis, a mysterious nerve-crippling disease, probably twice as prevalent as infantile paralysis; 2) paralysis agitans, a lingering, incurable shaking palsy; 3) epilepsy (known to modernists as "convulsions"). Meanwhile, within the cheerful green walls of the Institute, turbanned patients continue to wheel their chairs through sunny wards, as 100 experimenters work on problems such as mirror-writing, abnormalities of the senses, hydrocephalus (water-on-the-brain), brain physiology and anatomy...
Pain and Tumors. About half of the Institute's 3,200 annual patients require operations for brain or spinal-cord tumors. A great proportion of these operations are performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy-green nonreflecting arc lamps designed by Dr. Stookey spotlight the site of operation, but cast no shadow, generate little heat. Dr. Stookey performs scores of operations for the relief of "intractable" pain. Victims of agonizing, incurable cancer, for example, can usually have their last days made easy by a simple...