Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvey C. Taylor, chairman, also announced the following appointments on his committee: Thomas L. Higginson, financial chairman; George N. Hurd, Jr. head usher; Frank H. McKechnie, lighting supervisor; William B. Parsons, Jr., Joseph M. Miller, Charles B. Ayres, and Thomas 41, Carroll, ticket sales; William C. Murphy, decorations; Don S. Frienkin, publicity chairman; John P. Bunker, advertising chairman; and Arthur H. Northrop, arranger at the Union...
Busch, who became Provisional President in July 1937 after the overthrow of Col. David Toro and was elected constitutional head of the country last May, said his dictatorship was neither extreme leftist nor rightist, but "entirely Bolivian" in character...
Samuel and Harris Rosenbaum head the other Eli tutoring bureau and also run the Milford school. They have been tutoring ever since they graduated from Yale...
Popular, petite debutante daughter of a wealthy Mississippi plantation owner, Anne Walter annoyed her mother by studying medicine in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Then she went to China as substitute head of the Women's Hospital in Soochow, a "city of unmentionable sights and indescribable smells." Her energy got her the nickname "Small Typhoon." Buddhist priests spread the rumor that she would gouge out patients' eyes and mix them with copper to make silver. The sick frequently preferred "the death road" by hanging themselves rather than try her medicine...
...least of her trials was her pious, domineering husband, Dr. John Burrus Fearn, head of the Men's Hospital at Soochow, later head of the Shanghai General Hospital. When she married him, three years after her arrival in China, she was compelled to read five chapters of the Bible each morning, ten on Sundays, while her hospital routine waited, slowed, stalled. She stood it until one morning the Bible-reading held up a Caesarean, whereupon she slammed the Bible on the floor, crying "I can't bear it! I wish I'd never seen the damned thing...