Word: hendricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Republican come-back and what should be their issues was a question he did not answer, a question so obvious that every G. O. Partisan in the land was trying to answer it. On the morning after, the first name that occurred to anyone was that of Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, the only Republican Senator to be re-elected on terms even mildly resembling a Party victory. He had carried Michigan and towed many of that State's Republican Representatives to victory with him. His record was not a record of outright opposition to the New Deal...
...apprenticeship in drawing under John Sloan. Most appealing piece was a solemn Kewpie-like head of a child called Marnie. That Mr. Sturm was already developing a fashionable following was indicated by some of his other subjects: Washington's Mrs. George Eustis, Long Island's Mrs. Ellwood Hendrick, Thomas Hitchcock Jr., Hope Williams, Gene Tunney. Strongest of the lot was his deeply creased portrait of William McFee...
...Benjamin Hendrick is now 7. When he was two his back began to stiffen. Next year one leg got stiff, making him limp a little, and he grew awkward with his hands. Whenever he cut himself it took a long time for the wound to heal. By the time he got to school, in small Larksville, Pa., he could hardly use his arms at all and his teacher had to help him on with his coat and rubbers. For a while he was sent to a clinic for crippled children, until doctors discovered what was wrong with him. Then they...
...parathyroid glands, which regulate the body's use of calcium and phosphorous. The disease, which produces circus sideshows' "stone men," is usually not fatal to adults, sometimes causing only a local ossification. Some physicians think there is a long chance of saving Benjamin Hendrick, whose back, thighs and upper arms are already hard as rock, if his parathyroids can be stimulated to check the flow of calcium. But most of the doctors at his bedside believe the hardening will go on & on until it reaches some vital organ and stops it for good...
Last week small Benjamin Hendrick, eating well and feeling no pain, was puzzled by the number of strangers who came to his ward. "Why are all those people looking at me?" he asked his nurse. "Is it because some day I'm going to be an aviator...