Word: patients
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Amiable Pipe Smoke. For the past four months patient, shrewd Georges Catroux has been a go-between for his country's unity. As negotiator between De Gaulle and Giraud he made many a trip between Algiers and London before the two French leaders finally met. French men have known him as a many-sided, yet singleminded, person-a lover of Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles...
...appreciation of that kind of man and that kind of service-which usually lies forgotten for a generation-this film comes notably soon. Mitchell had to fight official inertia and conventionality. He sacrificed health and, in the long run, life. He did not live to see his patient, advanced intelligence vindicated above the English Channel. Not even when his planes were winning Schneider Trophies (they won four) did England's financiers realize his full value. Not even after his eye-opening visit to Germany in 1935 and his meeting with the brilliant Willy Messerschmitt would the British Government lend...
...this fact be faced: the other Parties are not so far behind as they were. . . . We want a policy of full employment. . . . This country, patient, reasonable, politically mature, ready to compromise though it may be, will not again be patient with the miserable spectacle of dole-fed millions eating out their hearts and wasting their lives on the street corners...
...public, was also unrealized by many members of the medical profession. Sulfa experts were worried about the common use of the drugs where the use was not specifically indicated. They were worried by the tendency of some physicians to prescribe sulfa without subsequently keeping a close eye on the patient...
...course of nature, we young upstarts became an Old Gang. ... Of the seven Fabian essayists of the '80s the only survivors are [Sidney] Webb and myself, both octogenarians. ... Be patient with us: we shall not be long...