Word: lolitas
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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Also, on shipboard other aging passengers squinted shaggy eyes at this old man who was so sprightly, who held himself so chirky. Two or three of these oldsters remembered him 24 years before when in Chicago he cured the then Lolita Armour (now Mrs John J. Mitchell Jr.) and so gained his U. S. fame. At that time he was beginning to look seedy, to show signs of weariness (his manual operation requires terrific force). What had made him grow so vital, so virile? True he was slightly deaf. But otherwise he seemed a man in full prime. Dr. Lorenz...
...Lorenz came in 1921 with his sons, Albert and Conrad, as assistants. His intentions were to reduce, in clinic, skeletal deformities by manipulative surgery similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics...