Word: patient
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drove to his castle in the village hack, midst exploding railway torpedoes set off by the tenants, and there at the castle door stood a mournful butler in livery with a little black box in his hand. Diffidently, Earl Fred took the little box from the butler, and the patient Trimmers sighed with relief. Their friend was officially installed Lord of the Manor...
...fought and how. Unlike His Majesty George V, who did not bring himself to chew and swallow solid food while his royal appetite was in abeyance (TIME, Jan. 14), the Generalissimo continued, even last week to eat with a precision which his doctors declared absolutely astounding in a patient thus far gone...
Tears for so splendid an old paladin seemed more than vain, yet they were not lacking, last week, when the nine doctors left the Marshal's room, after examining their patient with especial earnestness...
Brokenly the great Parisian heart specialist, Dr. de Gennes, exclaimed to the reporters: "Pray to heaven, gentlemen, that no further relapse occurs. Each leads our glorious patient a few steps further down the ladder of Life...
...Mellon's proximity to oil, steel, aluminum and other corporations-has repeatedly-failed to arouse major excitement for the simple reason that only alarmists have bothered to question Mr. Mellon's integrity. Mr. Mellon's spokesmen in the Senate let the McKellar resolution go through with patient annoyance. They expected the ouster movement would die a quiet death when the Judiciary Committee reports. For ten minutes during this brief session of the Senate, Vice President Curtis presided for the first time in his new capacity. He rapped with his gavel so often and so lustily that Senators...