Word: maud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Helen Maud Holt, Lady Tree, 72, actress, widow of the late, great actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree; after an operation; in London...
Tied up with fact and theory is the dictum of Prof. Maud Slye, Chicago mouse-breeding geneticist: that cancer of the breast runs in families. Also tied up with all this is the probability that, if castration actually prevents mammary cancer, the operation must be performed at least three years before the disease is expected to break...
Medical men who attended the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Atlantic City last week (see p. 48) found some tepid thrills. First there was the sight of high-spirited, mouse-breeding Professor Maud Slye of Chicago smiling wryly at high-spirited, mouse-breeding Dr. Clarence Cook Little of Bar Harbor. The smiling apparently ended 25 years of bickering over the inheritability of cancer (TIME, Nov. 16). To no one's surprise she popped up with her everlasting credo: "I breed out breast cancers. I don't think we should feel so hopeless...
...Best Liar" for 1936 by the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club, which awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
...perform. Nonetheless Director Bean, who had heard of singing mice before, offered $150 for it. Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, zoology curator of the Field Museum of Natural History, also said he had heard of singing mice, though he had never seen one. Declared University of Chicago's Dr. Maud Slye, famed cancer experimenter: "I have had 160,000 mice and I never had one that sang. If there is a singing mouse, I am open to conviction...