Word: lifelong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed book. The Prince, cynical guide to the arts of governing, Machiavelli "preached what he deplored, and professed what he could not practise." A hero worshipper, he set Caesar Borgia on a pedestal. When his hero proved to be no man of iron, Machiavelli's disillusionment was lifelong...
...miracle-worker who raised Helen Keller from the worse-than-dead. Her name is Anne Sullivan Macy; in this book Authoress Braddy tells her little-known story. Mrs. Macy has lived continuously with Helen Keller for 45 years except for two occasions. Fourteen years older than her lifelong pupil, she was well fitted to be a sympathetic teacher of the blind. She was practically blinded herself in childhood by trachoma. A series of operations restored her sight, but her eyes have always troubled her. Born Annie Sullivan, the daughter of poor Irish immigrants in Massachusetts, she and her rip-roaring...
...Hagan of Pittsburgh the problem was more complex than that. He thought that children often confuse the numbness of local anesthesia with real pain, that a lifelong antipathy often springs from the child's first visit to the dentist. To avoid this he recommended that all patients under five years of age be given a general anesthetic. He also urged that adults whose fears cannot otherwise be quieted be put to sleep before undergoing a dental operation...
...sympathies are even more rootedly proletarian than his. Mixture of Pennsylvania Dutch and Iowa stock, plain in face and nature. Josephine Herbst has spent 38 restless years. After college (at the Universities of Iowa and California) she went abroad, in Paris met and married radical Author John Herrmann, lifelong friend of Ernest Hemingway. They lived in Paris two years, then wandered to Germany, Italy, Seattle, San Francisco, Manhattan, bought a farm in Erwina, Pa., where they spend agricultural summers. In winter they like to go fishing in Florida with Friend Hemingway. Since last December they have been in Mexico, where...
...fight, even at 70. A slim, wiry, suntanned Louisiana aristocrat, scion of wealthy Mississippi planters, one of the South's richest cotton factors, he is the antithesis of a red-headed ragamuffin from Shreveport. Before the turn of the century, he headed the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. A lifelong foe of civic indecency, he started his political career in 1913 by hiring the New Orleans Athenaeum and lashing local crookedness. In 1920, with the aid of the "best people," he got himself elected Governor. So vicious were Huey Long's attacks that Governor Parker sued him for criminal...