Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sewer at dead of night because he knew it responsible for a typhoid epidemic. Again & again in his crusading zeal "never to take anything for granted'' in Medicine he was thwarted by the indifference of senile or mediocre colleagues. An original thesis on the causes of lung infection in miners won him a government appointment. He was again disillusioned. Instead of finding himself with opportunities to pursue his research, he was given six months in which to decide whether a two-and-a-half inch bandage is better than a three-inch. With his last ?600 he bought...
...RETURN OF KAI LUNG-Ernest Bramah-Sheridan House...
...possible to escape from an enemy carrying a two-edged sword but not from the interference of a well-meaning woman." Such Wodehousian sentiments garbed in Confucian terms are the unmistakable trade-mark of Ernest Bramah (E. B. Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately...
Died. John Burke, 78, Chief Justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court, North Dakota's first Democratic Governor (1907-13), onetime (1913-21) Treasurer of the U. S.; of pneumonia, following a lung operation; in Rochester, Minn. At the 1912 Democratic National Convention he was runner-up to the late Thomas R. Marshall for the Vice Presidential nomination. In 1922 he entered partnership with Louis M. Kardos Jr. in a Wall Street brokerage firm which soon failed, was exposed as a "bucket shop." Admitting that he had received $500 a week for the use of his name as "window...
Died. Wilhelm Henie. 65, Oslo fur dealer, father of Sonja Henie, world's greatest figure skater; of a bloodclot in the lung, following an abdominal operation; in Hollywood...