Word: nautiluses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost everyone who has read The Chambered Nautilus knows that the elder Oliver Wendell Holmes was a doctor. But not many know or remember that John Keats, Oliver Goldsmith, Friedrich Schiller, Tobias Smollett, George Crabbe, Robert Bridges, Francis Thompson, and Lieut. Colonel John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) were also medical men. So was Thomas Dunn English, the man who wrote Ben Bolt. Most of these writers were doctors only incidentally, and almost none of their poems in the anthology refer to medicine (exception: Holmes's The Morning Visit...
...Pacific in ever-greater numbers, reported last week their juiciest bag: among 27 Japanese vessels sunk, seven were combat craft, and of the seven, one was a large aircraft carrier. Twice previously the undersea raiders had been credited with enemy flattops "probably sunk"; in the Battle of Midway, the Nautilus polished off the crippled Soryu. But this was the first time a sub had been credited with a certain kill, unassisted by other forces. No details were disclosed; Navy Secretary Forrestal regretted that the submarine fleet must remain the Navy's silent service. Silent...
Hiler had submitted vivid canvases of a nautilus, a purple flower and an iceberg to the Los Angeles Museum's fourth annual showing of local artists. His primitivist father, 77-year-old Meyer Hiler, had also offered work. When the Museum's sole juror, Director Roland McKinney, turned the Hilers down, Hilaire wrote...
...scorching day in 1862, a Boston Brahmin stood on the battlefield of Antietam, from which some 5,000 bodies had just been removed. The old man was the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, the author of The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay and The Chambered Nautilus-Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. He had heard that his son, Captain Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 21, was shot through the neck, and he had dashed down from Boston to find the boy or his body. He found neither at Antietam. A week later, in Harrisburg, Pa., the Doctor ran into his son at last...
Included in the collection, which was assembled on the basis of esthetic beauty, are large West Indian snails, Philippine oysters, with white and pink spines growing from the shells. Philippine "cones", which in life contain snails with poisoned teeth, Austrian clams, and examples of the pearly nautilus...