Word: petered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Presiding over the clinic were two venerable brothers, Drs. Charles and Peter Kaadt (now aged 74 and 76 respectively). Insulin, said the Brothers Kaadt, was oldfashioned. So were diabetic diets. The essential thing, they said, was to take three tablespoons a day of the Kaadts' own diabetes remedy. Then insulin could be reduced (or eliminated entirely), and the patient could eat anything his heart desired...
...Peter Manning-Smith 1GB, was elected president of the Harvard University Rugby Football Club at the final spring meeting last night. Dwight K. Nishimura '49, Varsity football manager, was picked as rugby manager beginning in February, and Joseph Eaton '50 was elected team captain...
...After gossip columnists haughtily cried "Bad taste!" Ciro's nightclub in Hollywood banned Comic Peter Lind Hayes's newest skit. Hayes and his wife had been imitating President Truman and daughter Margaret. Hayes played the Missouri Waltz and pretended to sell neckties. His wife kept crying, "You're living in the past!" Said Hayes, answering his critics: "We tried it at the hardware convention in Cincinnati and they kept coming back night after night...
...Exiled Peter of Yugoslavia, visiting the U.S. with wife Alexandra and son Alexander, attended Serbian Orthodox Easter services in Manhattan. Royalists in the congregation greeted him with the Serbians' tactful cry that fits every distinguished guest: "Zivio"-meaning simply "Long live...
...otherwise the big derby was its usual noisy self. An insurgent from M.I.T., Peter Dayton by name, crashed into the line of march and was soon heaved into the drink by several hundred howling women in graduation garb and beanies...