Word: lumbago
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Tall, straight and spry when he made his budget speech fortnight ago, Chancellor Neville Chamberlain of the British Exchequer was sorely crippled by a sudden attack of lumbago last week. Slowly, painfully he limped into the Treasury for an important conference with Sir George Ernest May. the actuary who is chairman of Great Britain's important Import Duties Advisory Committee of three...
...York subway; Most Rev, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, in Cannes where he is being treated by King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined in his rented Swiss villa near Geneva with laryngitis...
...Justice Holmes, venerable in retirement, is still sharp and mellow of mind. He has lately been less troubled by the lumbago which was an immediate cause of his leaving the High Bench. Leaving his motor to call on his former colleagues or to borrow or return books from the Supreme Court Library, his step seems more lively, his bearing more erect, than two months ago. This year he has given no press interviews, made no public statements, but.to a banquet held by the Federal Bar Association in his honor on his 91st birthday (March 8) he wrote...
...last free lecture of a series being given on Sunday afternoons by the Faculty of the Medical School in Boston, Dr. M. N. Smith-Peterson, assistant professor of Orthopedic Surgery, will speak tomorrow on Back Ache, Lumbago, and Sacroiliac Troubles". This subject will be presented at the Medical School, located on Longwood Avenue in Boston, at 4 o'clock. It will be open to the public, as well as to all members of the University, and the doors will close at five minutes past the hour. No tickets will be required...
Though his nickname is no longer entirely apposite, experts have not yet considered Stribling too old to be effective. Of late he has been bothered by lumbago in his back. His left hand, often broken at the knuckles, has to be desensitized with cocaine every time he fights. Against Schaaf, Stribling found this left hand peculiarly ineffective. Sharkey, who beat Stribling in 1929, had apparently coached his protégé to avoid it and Schaaf pounded Stribling in the body till the fourth round. Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf...