Word: hospitalers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, on a hunch, an unnamed physician at General Hospital tried a simple kindergarten game on Mrs. Gregory. He knotted the end of a fine steel wire, gently pushed it down her throat into her stomach. On the wire he threaded a tiny steel bead, no larger than a...
He then went to Mexico and bought a radio station in Villa Acuna, across the Rio Grande from Del Rio, Tex. Station XERA, called "Sunshine between the Nations," has an official wattage of 350,000 although the claim is that Brinkley recently stepped it up to 1,000,000 watts...
In 1937 Brinkley established another hospital in Little Rock, Ark. Every Monday in his private plane he flies to Little Rock from Del Rio, and every Thursday he flies home again. At the airport pretty Mrs. Brinkley meets him in their 16-cylinder scarlet Cadillac, which looks like a fire...
Jan Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes...
Blasted were electric power, gas, water, telephones. The toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations...