Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fine. The Archbishop of Canterbury was seen at this point tensely bending forward with his hand cupped across his forehead as though earnestly praying for Lord Moray. Other peers physically dissuaded him from striking a match, led him out to be attended for several hours by a hastily summoned physician, had him taken home at I a. m. by friends...
Usually somnolent, the House of Lords woke up to debate last week the act to broaden British grounds for divorce (TIME, June 14), with Lord Dawson of Penn, long physician to King George V and friend of Queen Mary, championing the bill. "When a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning," somewhat daringly observed Lord Dawson, while more than one bishop frowned. "Women are more sex-conscious than of old and demand a more sex-satisfying life. Why should marriage alone remain static...
...Salisbury. "There is not even any definition in this bill of either 'desertion' or 'incurable insanity' " although it would make them grounds for divorce, and the Marquess went on in his opposition to quote from the Bible. Sarcastically the late King George's physician cut in: "When standards of conduct are changed, opponents of the change always appeal to God and the Bible...
...Chicago was another war, not in Europe this time but right at home -the 1937 U. S. war on venereal disease (TIME, Oct. 26). The Law had stepped in to help fight a battle for Medicine. Beginning July 1 no marriage license could be issued in Illinois without a physician's certificates that both parties had passed tests showing freedom from syphilis and gonorrhea.*By no means were all Illinois' last-minute licensees tainted: many wished to avoid the added expense (up to $25) of the medical tests; others were shy or afraid of the bloodletting needle: others...
...atremble. The bar boy had obviously skipped town. His locker was empty. The police had been to his $1.50 a week hotel, found only an old pair of shoes and New York newspapers with stories about the Gedeon murders and the recent death threats against a staff physician at Rockland State Hospital where Irwin had once been a mental patient. "I feel like a nickel now," mumbled Miss Koscianski.-"I didn't call the police because I just thought it was a coincidence. I didn't have the nerve to think of him actually as a killer...