Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bells rang out right merrily through the day. Visitors flocked to Marlborough House to sign the guest book. Couriers-that is postmen and telegram lads-rushed with greetings. At Sandringham, surrounded by her royal relatives, the Queen Mother, Dowager Alexandra, passed a festive 80th birthday in the best of health and spirits...
Some months ago, one Miss Margaret L. Johnstone of Glen Ridge, N. J., U. S. A., lay abed in Venice, stricken with typhoid. An Italian nurse restored her to health; and, for her services, Miss Johnstone presented to her, in addition to her ordinary fees, a necklace bought at an important jewelry shop. Correspondence between nurse and former patient brought out the fact that the jewelers had substituted a cheap necklace for the one purchased by Miss Johnstone; the latter, naturally becoming angry, wrote to the shop. Then, apparently, overcome by vexation, she wrote also to Mussolini-the Mussolini whose...
President Thomas G. Masaryk was recently reported sick abed (TIME, Nov. 24). The latest report on the condition of his health said that he was writing a book of memoirs-a book, be it said, of which the publiction is awaited not without impatience by a vast circle of Dr. Masaryk's friends...
...whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from Dr. Louis I. Harris of the Health Department of New York City. Impressed by the news of Messrs. Vedder and Sawyer, the Department had opened chlorine clinics last June, had run them until August. Said Dr. Harris, who had charge of the clinics: "Our experience in treating 13 individuals who had asthma gave us cause for alarm...
...forecast (TIME, Nov. 24), General Ismet Pasha, Premier of Turkey, resigned because of ill-health. Fethi Bey, President of the Grand National Assembly, prominent at the meeting of the League of Nations Council at Brussels (TIME, Nov. 10), was appointed his successor...