Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inclosed circular will show that the Hygiene Reference Board includes the chief hygienists of the United States. If you wish to go into the matter thoroughly 1 suggest that you see or communicate with Haven Emerson (formerly Health Officer of New York City), George Blumer (formerly Dean of the Yale Medical school), Professor C. E. A. Winslow, Robert W. De Forest, Mr. Taft or any officer, director or member of the Hygiene Reference Board. The best way of all is to visit the Institute and to see the Medical Director, Dr. Fisk. Or you can see some of our customers...
More than a year ago Senator Frank B. Brandegee of Connecticut committed suicide in the Capital (TIME, Oct. 20, 1924, MILESTONES). His health had not been the best and it was reported that he had lost his fortune through unfortunate investments. His friends and colleagues spoke well of him, and his death was charitably regarded with the hope that it might be forgotten...
...interest attached to the arrival at Manhattan of the famed U. S. architect, Whitney Warren, who announced that he had recently spent some hours at a luncheon, tete a tete with his friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...Georg Tchitcherin, now Foreign Minister to the Soviet Union, represents a late and almost perfect flowering of the outworn cult of secret diplomacy. He still employs all its stock phrases, catch-subterfuges which seldom deceive a rabbit-for example, he never "goes on a mission" but "travels for his health." Yet when cornered and pressed for categorical answers to specific questions he speaks with the adroit tongue of a sibyl or a Machiavelli. Last week he arrived at Paris as expected (TIME, Dec. 7), and the Olympian game of interrogating him was resumed by correspondents, with the following results...
...Burr resigned his commission because of ill health (occasioned by hardships), and after a year or two spent in re- covering resumed the study...