Word: guys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hospitals. "Walking the hospitals," i. e., making the ward rounds, to which American students are introduced but sparingly until their interne years, became the favorite sport of British medical students. Laboratory and lecture work in the British schools was weak until recent years, but the great hospitals of Guy's, St. Mary's, Bart's and others have produced thousands of notable practitioners with the best clinical experience in the world. The current of progress, stimulated by official support from the Ministry of Health, of which Sir George Newman is Chief Medical Officer, is now _ setting...
...English stroke is nearing the end of its course in American rowing. For a good many years nearly every college in the country has run its navy on the American plan. Yet Yale and Harvard stuck to Guy Nickalls, Heber Howe, their various associates, and the styles of the English Thames. Last year Yale went a thousand miles in the opposite direction and summoned Ed Leader, coach from the State of Washington. Leader promptly threw overboard British theories, stroke, rigging. He developed an eight which defeated Pennsylvania, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, Harvard. Rowing veterans declared his varsity crew, which Harvard trailed...
Cecil had died in San Antonio? Bee had passed through much, including an unhappy love-affair. She and Guy met almost as strangers? but he knew from the first moment that he could never be happy with anybody else. So he told the dessicated Dessie that all was off between them?and she went right out and married the man he had robbed...
...small-town spite against Guy?and then, at last, the change. A great automobile road was to pass through the state. Junction City wanted to be on. Who to send to St. Louis as the city's representative to convince the commissioners of Junction City's importance? Guy was the only able orator in town?he had "a bad record"?yes, but they had to have him. So they gave him a presentation traveling-bag and sent him off? the speech Bee had helped him write in his inside pocket?the deservedly prominent citizen of his boyhood dreams...
...lived in America and attended a private school on Washington Square. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he wrote two novels. One of them, The Wooden Horse, was his first published story. Before this, however, at the age of twelve, he is said to have written a novel concerning Guy Fawkes for the delectation of the family cook. For a time he worked as a journalist on The London Standard. He is popular in London; but it is only at certain times that he allows himself the luxury of society. He likes to be alone in the little Cornish village...