Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago medical schools, which get their anatomical specimens from public institutions, burn their remains. That practice seems to be delicately tied up with a legendary incident which occurred before Illinois passed its law legitimizing the supply of cadavers to schools, and which many a Chicago doctor likes to relate. Two...
But what got us into this idea of the value of a tone of voice was an incident we witnessed on Holyoke Street. The whole thing could have taken place in pantomime save for the final remark, and that depended not on itself, but entirely on the tone of voice...
The following is an excerpt of President Quincy's work, telling of the incident:
The State-controlled press of Germany is usually ignored by the U. S. State Department, but a formal protest from the German Government could not be. Secretary of State Cordell Hull apologized orally: "I very earnestly deprecate the utterances which have given offense. . . . They do not represent the attitude of...
But there's something about a royalistic weekend in New York that's self-perpetuating--you have the pleasing feeling when it's over that it won't be the last one you'll ever have. For royalists are a tough crew--they've got staying power, and the ability...