Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear days around noon a statuesque blonde in jodhpurs pops into Washington's Mayflower cocktail lounge. She is Evelyn Walker Robinson ("Evie") Robert and she has tamed one horse and large numbers of New Dealers. Skittish Administration insiders like Charlie Michelson and Marvin McIntyre eat out of her hand. And her adoring husband, Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., is the secretary of the National Democratic Committee...
...ever heard of him. But before he was even half way through Vieuxtemps' rhetorical D Minor Concerto, the Philharmonic's audience was shouting and stamping fit to bust the buttons off its stuffed shirts. When it was over, self-possessed little Violinist Virovai was given a terrific hand. Critics straightway placed him in the front rank of present-day fiddlers, acclaimed his appearance as one of the most exciting debuts ever heard in Carnegie Hall...
...diplomatic, sociable Dr. Cullen can scarcely fail to be a tribute to Howard Atwood Kelly, so close has been their association for almost half a century. Hopkins men know that at the jolly, informal dinner, Dr. Cullen, who has taught every class in the Hopkins Medical School, will modestly hand over most of his laurels to Dr. Kelly. For he constantly says: "Although I now occupy the chair that Dr. Kelly formerly held at Hopkins, Kelly will always remain my beloved chief...
...amazing surgical dexterity spread his name all over the world, and lesser men seated in the operating theatre would gasp in admiration as Dr. Kelly, a scalpel in each hand, would boldly slash left & right through a patient's muscular abdominal wall. Dr. Cullen often tells the story of their first meeting, in Toronto's General Hospital in 1891. Young Tom Cullen was the intern assigned to handle the great Dr. Kelly's instruments. As Dr. Kelly grasped his scalpels Dr. Cullen turned round to thread a needle. When he looked back in a few seconds...
...charge of operations, whom Mr. Avery hired away from W. T. Grant Co. in 1932. Born on a Maine farm and educated in a one-room schoolhouse before he went to the University of Maine and Princeton, studious Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably continue dictating Montgomery Ward's policies, he last year began retiring from active business life when he quit U. S. Gypsum's presidency, which he had held...