Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Today, though many of the Rothschilds still play the game at which they cannot lose, there are some members of the family who have turned from gold to other interests. Most prominent of these is Baron Henri de Rothschild, M. D., of Paris. He considers himself a physician, an author a sportsman?forgets the golden touch of Jewry except when he flings down a million francs here, or 40 million there in philanthropy...
...from a Pullman car in Florida, TIME says: "They (the passengers) heard one Blanche S. Brookins, Negress, snorting and scolding: 'Yoh all let me 'lone yoh whaht trash. I gotta ticket!' " Knowing Mrs. Brookins and her family, having attended college with her cousin, a prominent Negro physician of Florida, such would-be cleverness is painful to the point of bordering on nausea. Perhaps TIME could well do a little house cleaning to its own advantage-getting rid of such individuals in its organization who can think only in the stereotypes of two or three decades back. WALTER...
...Zimbalist. The "Viola Mac Donald" was born in 1701. "La Belle Blondine," the cello that was heard in Spain, was bundled off in silks and felts to the U. S. in return for a fabulous sum of money. The fourth, a "Red" Stradivari, was just recently released from a physician's care; its tone wanted strengthening. For these four fiddles Mr. Warburg paid $200,000. It is not for antiquity this sum has been paid. It is for workmanship. After 200 years, they are still the work of a hand that has never found a rival. Though...
Rest. Dusk came. As lamps were lighted the Emperor received an ounce of liquid food administered through a tube. He was approaching the last stages of pneumonia, and his lungs have always been weak. At his bedside a physician administered oxygen whenever he seemed sinking. The pulse, constant for some time at 126,* became too fast to count. The respiration mounted to 84;? the Emperor's feet swelled markedly...
...work was by no means a one-sided one. He not only taught the undergraduates practical subjects, he taught the students of law and medicine the theoretical subjects which they needed to know. He made people see that the best physician was the man who had been grounded in Pathology, the best lawyer the man who had grasped the principles of law instead of Meting himself be swamped by details. To quote a current phrase he "put learning on the map" in more senses than one. To him more than to any other man--I had almost said "more than...