Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back, presented a bouquet to the Marshal's wife, affably greeted their daughter. Later Emperor Vittorio Emanuele and Marshal Badoglio reviewed troops amid deafening plaudits near the Triumphal Arch of Constantine. Once home, the Viceroy of Ethiopia confided with an old soldier's simple candor the main reason why he did in fact return to Rome last week...
...days of the circus' death-defying stunts, as the days of its parades down Main Street, are over. Both are now an unnecessary complication of an already complicated routine. Since Ringling's and Barnum & Bailey's have combined, such competitive stunts are no longer demanded. Fellows admits that accidents still happen under the big top, but on no such scale as in the dangerous days of looping automobiles and diving bicycles. Such ' hair-raising numbers as Clyde Beatty's animal-training act are not popular with all members of the audience, and present knotty transportation...
...recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives affluently on Philadelphia's Main Line, attends the swankest Presbyterian Church, at Bryn Mawr. Conservative in theology, he has never been involved in church fights, has been pleasantly identified with the Pension Board whose assets were $6,000,000 when he joined it. Since then its rolls 'have been enlarged to include every Presbyterian minister...
...slim nurse, Dagmar A. Nelson, had added to the C.M.A.'s discomfiture just as the Coronado convention opened. Nurse Nelson is a specially trained, competent anesthetist working in Los Angeles' St. Vincent's Hospital. In California, as in other States, doctors are striving with might & main to establish anesthesiology as a specialty which only doctors of medicine may legally practice. Dr. William Vare Chalmers-Francis of Los Angeles, president-elect of the International Anesthesia Congress, asked California courts to enjoin Nurse Nelson from giving anesthesia to a surgeon's private patients. The California Supreme Court decided...
...never mentions. Though he keeps picking away at the puzzle of his own personality through 496 pages, he never solves it. He admits his unpopularity: "There is more than one portrait of myself lurking in the pages of contemporary literature. . . . All alike are hostile: which is significant. . . . The main question among my acquaintances has been whether it is a respectable big devil that inhabits me, or a little mean one." His only answer to the question is to shrug his other cheek...