Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with hugging and mugging--a procedure which may fit in with "Petting in the Park" but hardly with Mendlessohn; Puck, whom we have always imagined as an elfin creature of some wistfulness and considerable dignity is played by one Mickey Rooney as a combination of an immature Tarzan and Peck's Bad Boy, uttering the most fearsome grunts and growls; Lysander who turns out to be none other than our own Dick Powell needs some more Shakespearean seasoning, and when his voice rises into the higher octaves, he is practically indistinguishable from Mustard Seed and Pease Blossom...
...such persistent nosebleeders were Drs. Simon Back and Harry Lawrence Jaffe. Until they became internes in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital they bled practically every day. At Mount Sinai Hospital they encountered Dr. Samuel Mortimor Peck who was experimenting with the venom of deadly water moccasins. Moccasin venom contains an element, Dr. Peck had found, which dissolves the lining of capillaries which then permit blood to escape hemorrhagically. The same venom contains another converse element which toughens the walls of capillaries and blocks any such hemorrhage.* Dr. Peck isolated the antihemorrhagic substance, tried its effects on some animals, offered...
Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison...
Pointing a reproving finger at adhesive tape manufacturers, the Schwartz-Peck report to Surgeon General Gumming concludes: "Research in adhesive manufacture should make it possible to substitute non-irritating types of rosins and rubber for the present types...
Small, dark-eyed, prolific Author Baldwin took quick advantage of her first success, and at great speed, using the amateur's hunt and peck system, in the next five years typed out 16 serials as well as many a short story. Her grammar was shaky, her punctuation poor, but rates for her work increased steadily, until she now receives more than $50,000 for each of her magazine serials, is approaching Kathleen Norris' top mark of approximately $75,000 a serial for three serials a year. Unlike Romancer Norris, who can carry on a conversation and manage...