Word: orf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither of his professions has Dr. Cronin paid much attention to the rules. To the lay reader the "cut-shop" (medical jargon ) in The Citadel may seem tedious and overdone: but to many The Citadel will appeal as a spunky onslaught on an unco-sacrosanct stronghold. For "the bogus orf Harley-street" Dr. Cronin reserves his heaviest guns. Writing in London's Daily Express after the book's publication in Britain, he thundered: "I say to you, in all seriousness, that if half of this famous thoroughfare were bombed out of existence tomorrow, medicine, indeed...
...high value on specialized knowledge; but to get full value for inside information you must take it to the right market. Authoress Brokaw knows her Manhattan society. She was born, married, divorced in it. But novel readers are not so interested in dowager-&-debutante doings as are society editors orf social secretaries...