Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such defense mollified in no way one of the show pieces of Manhattan medicine, Dr. Bernard Sachs, 78, longtime professor of clinical neurology at Columbia University. Years ago, a Manhattan legend goes, when Professor Sachs called upon patients, his footman would accompany him to the bedside, hold his high hat during examination of the patient. At last week's meeting Neurologist Sachs rose to charge: "Psychoanalysis more often prolongs and engenders mental disorder than it cures it. No person who has undergone the treatment can ever be entirely normal mentally again. It is a disruptive and not a constructive...
...autograph, a crowd of pickaninnies with hands out for pennies. Paul Whiteman brought Handy to the stage of Municipal Auditorium when he played there for the big Floral Ball. Beale Street made him the leader of its grand parade. He stood in the first automobile, doffing his hat to left & right. At small Handy Park, named in his honor, he mounted a reviewing stand, settled down in an old-fashioned rocking chair, solemnly bowed as the marchers saluted...
...list of recent foreign importations is Russia's Sergei Kalmikoff, who weighs 235 lb., sports a straw-colored beard, a closely-cropped skull. Out of the ring, his .favorite pastime is to parade down Broadway, dressed in a gold-braided Cossack tunic with cartridge belt, boots, an astrakhan hat. In the ring, his customary procedure is to stroke his beard pensively, glower at spectators. His favorite hold is the Russian Bear Hug, nothing more than an earnest attempt to squeeze the living daylights out of his opponent. Last week Wrestler Kalmikoff, an ardent Communist, took his $25,000 earnings...
Paul, Minn., skinny, shivering Public Enemy No. 1, still wearing the stiff straw hat in which he was captured, was dragged from the airplane's cabin, rushed to the Federal building...
Dick Gilder, leading under-graduate political sage and sworn foe of the Roosevelt Administration has two grand wise-cracks to tickle the ears of his Republican bosses with when he becomes a brass-hat in the G.O.P. propaganda offices in Washington this summer. Best: "...Since God must be somewhere behind the New Deal, it's his way of avenging the South for the 'Reconstruction' period". In addition: "...Good sports in the Republican ranks say it's got to be taken; it's just retribution for Warren Harding...