Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roman Catholics "sin grievously, at least," if they read the Daily Worker. Under the Pope's recent order excommunicating Communists, Catholics may not read any Communist publications "for information, professional reasons, or curiosity," declared the Rev. Edwin B. Broderick this week, in a sermon at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral. "The toying parlor pink," he said, "must show his true color, red or not red . . . There is no room for pastel shades." Later, Cardinal Spellman, who heard the sermon, modified the interpretation a bit: Catholics who must read the Worker and other Communist literature...
...confusion about blonde, bulb-eyed ex-Cinemactress Joan Blondell's backstage ad-libbing. Producer Harold J. Kennedy, who had hired Miss Blondell for a week's stand in Happy Birthday at Princeton, N.J., said Joan used "vile and abusive language" to his cast. Joan admitted that she may have said "gosh" or "darn it." Mr. Kennedy said she threw a $40 silver hand mirror at either him or another member of the cast. Miss Blondell said it was not a mirror, it was a Kleenex and she wished it had been a brick. Princeton Police Chief Edward Mahan...
Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women, may...
Among his patients, reports New York Gynecologist Robert T. Frank in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, "a large number are fear-stricken and panicky . . . They may . have been told tactlessly by their physician that they have a tumor in the breast, ovary or womb which requires immediate operation. [They] may resist all attempts to convince them that the condition is harmless, nonmalignant and does not require operation...
...commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...