Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown-eyed, bobbed-haired Dr. Marian Staats Newcomer, 47, of Manhattan, remembers the qualms she suffered when a Syracuse University nose & throat specialist wanted to remove her tonsils. Although at the time she was a medical student of that University, she scooted home to her family doctor. "I knew," said she last week, "this beloved physician was not in a position to tell me more about my throat than the man who had already spoken so authoritatively on the subject. But he did know a great deal about my general health and background and I wished to add his opinion...
...family physician sent her back to a Syracuse nose & throat specialist who operated on the tonsils, was later obliged to call in a general practitioner to treat a "puzzling pleurisy" which Medical Student Newcomer soon developed. She recovered, was graduated and licensed to practice medicine, went to Paris for postgraduate study, returned to Manhattan "to establish and run semi-public clinics for the so-called white-collar classes." She learned enough about what patients think of doctors to publish an emotional book on the subject last week...
...member. But A. M. A. members could try to prevent him from operating his Philadelphia prepaid medical service by having him cited as an unlicensed operator of an insurance scheme. Dr. Saul retaliated by having his two brothers, both potent Philadelphia lawyers, tweak the A. M. A. nose where it stuck into Pennsylvania business...
Thus Sociologist Eduard Christian Lindeman charts in current Survey Graphic the psychological nose dive taken in the past decade by the nation's youngsters. In support of this unsanguine appraisal, the Rockefeller-endowed American Youth Commission last week released results of a survey of 5,000,000 U. S. citizens between the ages...
...picture starts off its hero (William Powell) as a barker at the Chicago World's Fair. He makes a fortune out of Sandow, the strong man, loses it at Monte Carlo, recoups in London by a contract with Anna Held (Luise Rainer) whom he steals from under the nose of his arch rival (Frank Morgan). He gives her a dozen orchids every day, makes her famed for her milk baths, eventually marries her. At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue. For 20 minutes, a huge revolving staircase exhibits...