Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate reader, the book will be interesting, since it will tell him what his sisters and cousins and, perhaps, aunts, in women's colleges, are thinking and saying about the things which trouble or amuse him most. To the serious-minded student who is bothered in turn about the health of the American undergraduate body, the book may be valuable, although the material is too fragmentary and heterogeneous to be fitted readily into a thesis mould. About all it proves, as we see it, is that the men and women of Ascalon are not like those of Gath
...Chief justice dropped easily back into the health-guarding routine which he follows when in Washington-up at 7 o'clock to be pummelled by a strong Swedish masseur; breakfast of hard-toasted bran bread-(oh, how different from the oranges, beefsteaks and sugary coffee which he used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor...
Soon after the wedding, Mr. Willebrandt's lungs necessitated a move to Arizona. Mrs. Willebrandt nursed him and did all the housework. She had vitality enough left over to take a normal school course in Tempe. After his health returned, she left him. She became a school superintendent in Los Angeles and studied law at the University of Southern California. Her reputation grew with her work as Public Defender of Los Angeles-charity advocate for beaten wives and fallen women...
...Rochester Alfred E. Smith arrived from the West, took charge of the Democratic convention. Several times he talked over long distance wires to Warm Springs, Georgia, where his good friend and presidential nominator Franklin Delano Roosevelt was mending his health. Roosevelt for Governor seemed necessary for Democratic success in New York, perhaps in the nation. But on advice of physicians Mr. Roosevelt had refused to run. Over the telephone the voice of the Happy Warrior pleaded again and again. Finally the Happy Warrior's great and good friend consented to run for Governor. New York Democracy was jubilant. Royal...
Lord Melchett was raised to the peerage last May as a recognition of his contributions to British industry. Sir Alfred was the Minister of Health in the MacDonald Labor ministry and is a fellow of the Royal Society. He is the President of the giant corporation known as the Imperial Chemical Industries. In addition to speaking at Harvard, he will talk to the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and will be entertained at a private affair in his honor, during his stay in Boston and Cambridge...