Word: medico
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...homes, workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico whose truculence toward the British got Key in the prison-ship predicament that inspired his deathless ditty...
Gogarty ("Gideon Ouseley") and his medico pals soon discovered what was wrong with Anatomy-"it lacked humor." They worked hard to make up the deficiency. Their workshops were fat Mr. Golly's bar, the Hay Hotel (an all-night cabbies' eating joint), Mrs. Mack's brothel. Here, on pawnshop financing, they galloped their horseplay, sang bawdy limericks, chummed with Jenny, the circus tumbler, Liverpool Kate, "the well-known and popular epileptic," Piano Mary, a neurotic socialist whose propaganda was Shakespearean readings in Mrs. Mack's brothel...
...people, have long been pointed to as having fine teeth simply because they shunned the mushy diet of our milk-toast civilization. Last week Columbia University Bacteriologist Theodor Rosebury, who has been to Alaska himself, disputed this standard theory of dental decay. According to his investigations, reported at a medico-dental session of the Greater New York Dental Meeting, previous theorists had been drawing the wrong conclusions from Eskimos...
...stage picture, the play is restless, intense, a tribute to Director Lee Strasberg's skill and care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...cinemaudiences saw a charmingly enameled Pola, matronly to the points of her double chin, die the remorseful death of fickle Madame Bovary. She was no longer the dashing, fiery Pola of Passion and Gypsy Blood. The 1937 Madame Bovary loves nice things, has a roving eye, a fat medico husband. Her eye gets to roving before her husband has had time to get down to the business of properly neglecting her, and the story, though warranted Aryan, is far from Flaubert...