Word: patients
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ghost Stories. At a soiree held to swap stories, the Duchess of Hamilton, who specializes in healing, told of flooding one patient so strongly with her curative power that his watch stopped as though electrically shocked. Some one else told of having summoned Edward VII of England, who exclaimed upon arrival: "There are no kings here. Call me Teddy!" A Scotch doctor had spoken from "beyond" with a rich burr. A baritone spirit had sung Love's Old Sweet Song quite loudly...
Here is where the puzzle comes in. Sometimes the patients live, sometimes not. Of Lee's beneficiaries 17 pulled through and 7 went to their rest. And in every single one of the latter cases, Frederick George Lee felt a severe pain in his arm at the precise moment of the patient's passing. He was depressed, distressed and overcome with illness, every time. Remarkable, because in no case did Lee behold the patient during the transfusion, in no case was he aware of the patient's condition until the last moment came, with its twinge...
...extra-legal effort to recover, from his rich, reprehensible, divorced wife, the custody of their unhappy child. Author Wilson* was awarded the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for the simplicity and directness of The Able McLaughlins. Simple in diction is The Kenworthys and fairly direct in presentation. But only a patient reader will penetrate the morasses of reiterative dialog, will take the scanted, arbitrary motives on faith, will 'ignore loose ends and faulty emphases and win through to the central piece of work that recommends the book. The characterization of gangling young Bronson Kenworthy, precocious, perverse, love-starved divorce-victim...
...Sweringen brothers, worn with testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission on their proposed Nickel Plate merger, have repented of ever entering the railroad business, they at least give no sign of it. They are patient, courteous, frank. Counsel H. W. Anderson, representing the minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders, is infinitely inquisitive. Counsel Newton D. Baker for the Van Sweringens, continues to protest against a continued unlimited inquiry into the past of the present Nickel Plate. The Van Sweringens answer frankly all questions asked them. Meanwhile it is July in Washington...
Darling. In Paris last week, patient Harry Wills was lionized, called "The Black Prince," "The Darling of Montmartre," showered with confetti...