Word: oculist
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...fortunate enough to be a subscriber to TIME; I would that I were. However, while in an oculist's office Fate put your magazine into my hands again, of May 4, 1931, this time: Mrs. M. V. Roquelaine of Baltimore, Md. commented upon the unusual cruelty of the person or persons who strung up that dog. Your answer to her query as to whether the perpetrator was not to be brought to punishment was: "If and when Cincinnati's fiend ... is apprehended and punished, TIME will tell...
Siam's King Prajadhipok announced that he and curvesome Queen Rambai will sail incognito to the U. S. next spring for removal of a four-year-old cataract from one of His Majesty's eyes. Dr. E. H. van Hasselt, noted Dutch oculist now in Java, was rushed recently from there by airplane to Bangkok, recommended that the Royal eye be knifed at "a famous American clinic" not named last week in despatches (probably Johns Hopkins...
...sudden squall in the turbulent Polish Sejm (Parliament) flung out Kasimir Bartel as Prime Minister of Poland last week. Professor Juljan Szymanski, amiable oculist-editor, strove valiantly to form another Cabinet, at the request of President Ignacy Moscicki. The proceedings infuriated Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, whose official position is merely that of Minister...
...Sebastian Spering Kresge does not sell eyeglasses. He used to sell them to thrifty persons who, consulting neither oculist nor optician, sought to remedy faulty vision with selections from Kresge counters. Last week, however, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that an S. S. Kresge store in Boston, in selling eyeglasses, was "invading a field rightly sequestered ... to those possessing special training in a specified department of treatment of human ills...
...royal car. The Rome train luxe backed in, and the car was coupled on. Next day His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy entertained in state at Rome Princess Elena and Crown Prince Mihail. Two days later the royal visitors proceeded to Florence. There Princess Elena consulted her oculist; for, beautiful though she is, she is said to be losing her eyesight. Through a lady-in-waiting Princess Elena intimated her plans to the press: "Her Royal Highness declares absolutely false all rumors to the effect that she will meet the abdicated Crown Prince Carol while on her present trip...