Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work, appropriated an enormous laundry table from the cellar, piled it high with boxes full of notes, set about retrieving Dr. Osier's myriad postcards (he rarely wrote letters). Much to the surprise of Dr. Cushing and his family, who doubted his literary ability, the scholarly two-volume Life of Sir William Osier* won the Pulitzer Prize...
...bloody operating rooms of France during the War, Dr. Cushing led a life of scientific asceticism. In spite of grueling works (he often performed as many as six operations in one day) he faithfully jotted down his scientific observations. He also found time to keep a detailed journal. As remarkable for its restraint as for its scientific and military detail, the journal tells in vivid doctor's language of Dr. Cushing's siege of Polyneuritis ambulatoria, a crippling inflammation of nerve trunks, which caused the muscles in his soles and palms to waste away. After the Armistice...
...China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek "observed a schoolboy behaving in an unbecoming manner in the street." Shortly thereafter the Generalissimo founded a New Life Movement to puritanize and clean up the Chinese, to fight superstition, ignorance and corruption, even to curb such Chinese habits as spitting in public. Chiang turned over the actual running of this movement, obviously Christian in its origin, to his Christian wife. Since then Mme Chiang has been advised, in the New Life Movement and in other matters, by a Congregational missionary, Rev. George W. Shepherd of Auburndale, Mass...
...that time, the Basque was known by the Latinized name of Ignatius. Of this austere, astute, self-styled "captain" in Christ's army, many pious biographies have been written. Published this week is Soldier of the Church,* first attempt to bring Ignatius Loyola to life for ordinary readers. Its author, Ludwig Marcuse, is a German-Jewish exile, biographer of Heine and Strindberg. His viewpoint: a middle course between Catholic orthodoxy and non-Catholic skepticism...
...Hybrid, and Wilder Hobson's up-to-date critique, American Jazz Music. Last week a biography was added to the shelf-Benny Goodman's and Irving Kolodin's The Kingdom of Swing*-which reveals nearly all there is to reveal about Mr. Goodman's life and four-four time...