Word: hospitalers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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25,000 Monkeys. It was well that the Boy Scouts have an elaborate organization for it undertook no mean responsibility in bringing some 25,000 Scouts to Washington. A staff of nearly 200 doctors was kept busy examining every arrival to prevent any infectious disease getting started. In the first...
Mrs. Rose Newell, a laundress who works for a girls' school in North Tarrytown, N. Y., was walking toward the school along a wooded stretch of road at nightfall one evening last week. Suddenly, from just over her head, she heard a weird, tremulous cry, half wail, half gibber...
Sent to train with a field hospital unit at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N. Y., he marveled at the amiability of officers who let him bring his dog along, called each other by first names, lay on the grass with the rank & file. In the German Army the whole lot of...
Put in charge of a ward for "amorous diseases" occupied by "Oldtimers." Germanic Private Bemelmans decided it was time to introduce some discipline in the U. S. Army. But when he tried to turn out the lights per regulations, his patients threw things at him. Threatened with his revolver, "they...
His next setback as a disciplinarian was in the Government mental hospital at Buffalo. w?here he was transferred as an attendant. Promoted to mess manager, he once kept the kitchen gang overtime to rewash greasy dishes. In playful revenge they dropped a blanket over his head, pounded him with...