Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President of the new body and thus titularly the most eminent man in Canadian medicine is Lieut. Colonel Dr. Jonathan Campbell Meakins, 47, director of the Department of Medicine at McGill University. He was born at serene Hamilton, Ont., near Toronto and Buffalo. studied medicine at McGill, took advanced instruction at Johns Hopkins and Manhattan Presbyterian Hospital, taught therapeutics after the War at the University of Edinburgh. At Edinburgh he received his LL. D. His service with the Canadian Expeditionary force brought him his Lieutenant-Colonelcy. Colleagues praise him as an alert learner, a learned instructor...
...lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President of the University of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 25), had her appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik...
...Dewey is a bridgebuilder. Seeing the gulf between savant and citizen, he works to span it, building out on one side by educating the plain man, on the other by rousing the pedant to action...
...husband, to have a baby. The first two ambitions she easily achieves, but with the third she has trouble. The scandal (which her fellow-villagers lap up but which will not greatly move the reader) enters when she turns in despair from her husband to another man, for procreative purposes only. The results are unfortunate: though she produces a son she loses her husband's love, eventually her son's respect, finally the farm. The Natural Mother is a worthy book, realistic to a degree, not noticeably shocking but definitely depressing, of the same order as Flaubert...
...program of the vocal club, whose selections will be interspersed throughout the concert, will include "Glorious Forever", by Rachmaninoff: "Chorus of Bacchantes", by Gounod, from "Philemon and Bancus"; "Longshoreman"; "Schneider's Band"; "Johnny Harvard"; and "Old Man Noah". The Mandolin Club has planned to present Brahms' "Waltz in A Major"; "Frasquita", by Franz Lehar; and selections from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Pinafore". The pieces offered by the Banjo Club will be the "Veritas March", by Densmore, and a medley of the various college football songs. The Gold Coast Orchestra will play the "Russian Fantasy", arranged by Lange...