Word: oculist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--The royal oculist was summoned to examine Queen Mary today after disclosure that she had suffered a "painful injury to one eye," the left one, when a truck loaded with affraid stream smashed into and overturned her automobile yesterday...
...correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly Hewitt exercised, satisfactorily passed, trained at March Field where about three-fifths of each crop is "washed out." He worked with Paul Mantz at United Airport, joyously signed three-year contract with China National Aviation Company...
...with Vita-Glass. Some of the Colonel's equine innovations, however, have been less successful than others. When he heard about streamlining and wind-resistance, he experimented with little hoods to be strapped on his horses' heads. More disastrous was his notion, abetted by an Akron (Ohio) oculist, that horses with defective vision would run better if equipped with glasses. Result was a large bill and one disabled jockey, the rider of the first terrified mount in spectacles. But to Colonel Bradley goes credit for introducing the fibre skullcap, first worn by his jockeys, now used...
Still in detached vein, Dr. Ludwig recalled that anti-Semitism is no new thing in Germany. His own father, a distinguished oculist, was barred from appointment to a Hohenzollern Government clinic because he was a Jew. Facing the fact that Nazi Hitler, by his nationally popular Jew-baiting, has ruined Germany for years to come as a residence for Jews, Author Ludwig proposed that the Jewish people seek membership as a "nation" in the League of Nations and there agitate their rights. Dismissing Palestine as too small for the world's 16,000,000 Jews, Dr. Ludwig comfortably concluded...
Hurricane and revolt again struck Cuba last week. Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes had left Havana for Sagua la Grande in north central Cuba to survey the storm damage and relief measures (see p. 18). Locum tenens at Havana was Col. Horacio' Ferrer, onetime Army surgeon and oculist who last month refused the Army's nomination as Provi- sional President. Early in the week, to deal with the restless Army, President de Cespedes made Col. Ferrer Secretary of War. Secretary Ferrer promptly barked : "The natural orgy that followed Machado's overthrow is over. The troops henceforth...