Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hemorrhage is due to wholesale escape of blood through the walls of those capillaries. According to one of the articles which Dr. Fishbein published last week, one treatment for thrombocytopenic purpura is the injection of water moccasin venom. The developers of this remedy, Manhattan's Drs. Samuel M. Peck, Nathan Rosenthal and Lowell A. Erf, advise a long series of hypodermic injections of dilute venom into the loose space between the skin and muscles. They admittedly do not understand the why or wherefore of their treatment. They do know that "it apparently has been of value...
...celebrated classroom caitiff like Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding. In most of the nation's schools, use of the corrective rod is prohibited by law. New York City. Chicago, Wilmington and Washington forbid all forms of corporal punishment in their educational systems. Erring moppets in Minneapolis, Omaha. El Paso and Providence may be chastised only with parental consent. Teachers in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. are not allowed to pull pupils' ears. In New Orleans...
That scholar was Harry Thurston Peck, famed as a classicist, as an editor (The Bookman, The International Encyclopedia), as a fractiously brilliant historian whose Twenty Years of the Republic inspired Mark Sullivan's contemporary Our Times. Professor Peck's wit and flowering waistcoats had excited a full generation of students when, in the summer of 1910, he wrote a bundle of impetuous letters to an obscure stenographer named Esther Quinn. Esther Quinn sued him sensationally for breach of promise. He was deserted by his wife and friends, espelled from his clubs, finally dismissed from his Columbia professorship...
Absent from his dinner last week was Harry Thurston Peck, who had retreated in disgrace to Stamford, Conn., where he unsuccessfully tried to make a living as a free lance, lost his mind, shot himself...
Historian. As a young man Mark Sullivan was vastly impressed by the late Harry Thurston Peck's brilliant history of the contemporary U. S., Twenty Years of the Republic (1885-1905). Years later after seeing many a U. S. political event from the inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read accounts of some of them and say to himself, "That was not the way it happened." History, he concluded, can never be rightly written from documents alone. Too much happens behind the scenes, too much is decided by a passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts...