Word: mastoid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English team that people expected a month ago. Aidan Roark got mastoid. Captain Richard George, another tentative No. 1, fell ill too. Barney Balding was tried out for a week. He had to quit after a bad fall. A young lieutenant of the Royal Scots Greys named Humphrey Guinness had done well as a substitute in 1927. There was nothing for it now but to put him in at back, move the veteran Lewis Lacey to No. 2-a position he had never played before when a match meant anything-leave Capt. C. T. I. Roark...
...eyes of his old friend and partner; at midnight he helps his assistant at a difficult delivery. "The day that had begun with an old man's death had ended with the birth of a child." The time between is filled with his usual rounds: n visits, a mastoid operation. Wherever he goes he sees people he knows as none of their fellow-townspeople can know them, for 40 years he has heard their troubles, patched them up, prescribed for them. Authoress Ashton's method is ingenious, effective; though most of the "action" is reminiscence, seen through...
...what he was saying. The Dr. J. Clarence Sharp he thus addressed proved to be not only a white man but a man even whiter than sandy Senator Caraway-a blue-eyed, pink-&-white blond, an ear, nose & throat specialist of considerable reputation, one of the best "radical mastoid" men in the land, a gentleman of 69 who for years was a familiar figure on the socialite golf links of Piping Rock Club...