Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President cabled Governor General Leonard Wood, a convalescent from an operation for hernia,, at Manila: "Earnestly hope for your quick, complete recovery. Glad your health good. Hope nothing interferes with the splendid services you are rendering...
...Washington, to work "with the office boys of the State Department underworld." He soon became chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs. President Taft, aware of his abilities, sent him back to London (where his career had begun) to the duties of Ambassador, Whitelaw Reid being in ill health. President Wilson, aware, made him Assistant Secretary of State during the War, and later gave to him the post of Minister to the Netherlands. In 1924 he reached the top title, Ambassador, his assignment being to Belgium...
...Here are some of them. Long before such things were socially approved, I stepped out into the middle of a ballroom, danced a solo turkey trot, smoked a cigaret. Ladies gasped; I had fun. One afternoon a woman was telling several of us about the miserable condition of her health. Suddenly I asked her: 'Have you ever tried standing on your head? ... It acts like a charm.' I borrowed a safety pin, fastened the hem of my skirt between my knees, put a cushion on the floor, shot my legs into the air, remained poised for a moment...
Community Welfare. "Doctors in general have been too individualistic, too content to minister only to the needs of their own patients, and too little interested in community conditions." -Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming, U. S. Public Health Service...
Professor McDougall is at present on his sabbatical leave travelling in Italy. In a letter recently received from him by the Boston Transcript, he says that the chief consideration that led him to make the change was the health of his wife and himself, which, he writes, will be improved in a warmer climate amid more quiet suroundings...