Word: nearsightedness
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The Man. Dos Passos the man is deceptively unlike Dos Passos the writer. Tall, baldish, bobbing and very nearsighted, he looks like a clever, kind, slightly startled Bill the Lizard in Alice in Wonderland. Born in Chicago, his family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about...
A cinema dealing with songwriters might well take Warren & Dubin for two type characters. Composer Warren is nearsighted and thin, suffers from nervous indigestion, a relic of the days of silent pictures when he played the piano in the old Vitagraph studios, attempted to provide an atmosphere that would inspire...
Such leakage occurs in glaucomatous eyes. Dr. Josephson reasoned, probably because the patient's adrenals supply too little cortin. He bought some cortin at a drugstore, injected it into the muscles of glaucomatous patients. Usually within half an hour eye pressure dropped to normal, tension and pain in the...
(3 of 5) Mrs. Vincent Astor organized a Women's Committee, opened her exclusive home for business meetings, goes each day to check on returns at campaign headquarters. Radio appeals have been made by New York's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, a longtime Philharmonic subscriber, by Mr. Flagler, Mrs...
Latest member of the artistic La Farge family to make his literary bow is Christopher, in a 224-page poem which he modestly calls "an American novel in verse." A patriotic poem, Hoxsie Sells His Acres sings not of arms and men but of Rhode Island land-lovers. A nostalgic...