Word: halt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Hickling Bradford,* surgeon, orthopedist and Dean of the Harvard Medical School. The professional opposition to him raged, not against his operative principles and methods, rather against the noisy publicity newspapers gave him. The press touted him as a miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like a small-time ventriloquist with...
...truly imperative. This last publication of the Brockton Blimp is too much. It is fair to expect occasional dull spaces in the pages of any humorous paper. But when those spaces are filled with obscenity in lieu of the lacking wit it is high time to call a halt. For years the tradition of Brockton periodicals has been--"Humor and news, clean, clear, and clever." And now the Blimp takes it upon itself to break Brookton tradition with a parody number of the Police Gazette. Such obvious decadence of discretion is incredible. As President Pringle himself remarked on reading...
...Harvard University Press. "The Five Books of Youth," and "Alchemy--A Symphonic Poem", were finished in 1920, and three years later his two volumes "The Hills Give Promise", and "The Coming Forth by Day", were published. Mr. Hillyer's last work was completed last year and entitled "The Halt in the Garden...
This particular evening, matrons saw Booth halt abruptly when he entered the ballroom. He blenched, bit his lips, stood taut...
Coach Lewis, in priming his men for this meet, has made four radical changes in his team's lineup which he hopes will bring a halt to the string of successive defeats. Kullman will be substituted for Stearns in the 135-pound class. Howe will replace Paine in the 175-pound class, and Wilson will replace Captain C. H. Bradford in the unlimited class. Hinkle will make his first appearance as a 145-pounder. The remaining lineup will be the same as in previous meets with Turner in the 115-pound class, Goldberg in the 125-pound class, and Wood...