Word: opened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasion posed for anatomical illustrations in medical texts. Several years ago at ceremonies to install Dr. Roland Hill as president of the St. Louis Medical Society, a large box was presented to the guest of honor, after a long speech celebrating his accomplishments. Urged by his distinguished colleagues to open the box, Dr. Hill removed the lid, took out a pair of carpet slippers. For a moment he was shocked, then he threw back his head and laughed: "Only Tom Cullen would have done this...
...bank's vice president, cashier, trust officer and secretary. Sample sentiment: "Pikeville is the grandest town that ever was." At 9 sharp, John Yost and his 14 fellow employes were at their posts and "the best and soundest bank in Kentucky" -50 years old last week-was open for business as usual...
...Saturdays, when more clients come to town, two colored moppets in livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...
...luxuries (which he puts before the necessaries) are his small Connecticut country place, "October House," a small sailboat on Connecticut's Candlewood Lake, and summer cruises in the Baltic on Finnish windjammers. He reads few books, would "rather open a vein than write," though T. E. Lawrence frequently made corrections in the Odyssey at his suggestion. (Rogers suggested the Odyssey translation to Lawrence.) Fond of bright clothing, Italian cooking, puns and typographical horseplay, Bruce Rogers particularly likes lying abed mornings. On his tombstone, chuckles "B. R.," he would like to have chiseled these instructions for the Angel Gabriel: "Call...
...more spectacular Arizona-and of magnificent Tibetan handicraft and art works. But even realists are likely to gag at his matter-of-fact details of Tibetan life: of monks who take special pride in a lifetime's grime that encrusts their golden robes; of communal toilets in open streets; of Tibetan burials, in which corpses are coiled as at birth, then hacked to pieces and fed to vultures...