Word: paget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both Parliament and the press there was an immediate outcry. "What action is being taken against the people who beat Podola unconscious?" shouted Laborite Reginald Paget in the House of Commons. Hard-bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola...
...Lovers. "If we want to drive women off the streets, where would we prefer them to go?" asked Laborite Reginald Paget. He told of watching two girls in a doorway on Curzon Street who, in a two-hour period, took eleven men upstairs, with the average time per man being under 15 minutes. Paget had also noted a common factor in all the men: "Their sadness ... If we were to stop this business outright, we might be doing something which would.be pretty dangerous." Girls on the streets are a nuisance, he conceded, but he felt it was better than spreading...
...Tory barrister, William Rees-Davies, answered Paget. Acting for various church groups who own much property in the red-light areas, Rees-Davies had interviewed some 250 prostitutes, concluded that what drove the vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his office in a Rolls-Bentley, asked his help in freeing her boy friend, who had been charged as a pimp. She said that she earned $17,000 a year and paid no income tax because "it has all been paid by those who give me presents...
...Surgery of the heart has probably reached the limits set by Nature to all surgery: no new method, and no new discovery, can overcome the natural difficulties that attend a wound of the heart." So in 1896 wrote eminent British Surgeon Stephen Paget. A few weeks ago at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital, eminent U.S. Surgeon Charles Philamore Bailey walked into a cluttered, unpretentious operating room which has attracted visiting medical men from all over the world. Dr. Bailey, at 46 one of the most daring innovators in heart surgery, was ready once again to push "the limits...
...septal defect. Within Charles Bailey's lifetime, surgery has changed from a relatively blunt and blind art, executed singlehanded. into a skill supported by a team of experts and a world of machines delicate enough to approach the center of life itself. Yet unlike his predecessor. Stephen Paget. Bailey refuses to believe there are no more conquests ahead. As he sees it, nothing is impossible in surgery. Bailey looks forward to the day when an entire heart may be taken from a man killed in an accident and grafted into another whose heart is diseased. Fantastic? "Merely a matter...