Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope's observance of Easter elaborate plans had been made. A Vatican functionary detailed, in memoranda, the minimum religious acts which would be required of the Holy Father in public, and Vatican Physician Dr. Aminta Milani. unwilling to take sole responsibility, called a consultation regarding Pius XI's physical state. Vatican workers hung 50-ft. velvet curtains about the high altar of St. Peter's, erected wooden partitions on the basilica's outside balcony to cut off drafts. Within St. Peter's on Easter Sunday morning 50,000 faithful cried "Viva il Papa" when...
...could pass sentence there. The woman lay on her back, arms folded over her chest, breathing slowly, her lips twitching. Apparently Helen Love was not only unaware of Judge Smith, but of a score of doctors, lawyers, jailers, reporters, photographers gathered in her cell. Dr. Benjamin Blank, jail physician, told the judge that Mrs. Love's condition was "mental," but that she was not "insane." Nevertheless, Judge Smith took a look at the sleeping prisoner, declared: "The court doubts the sanity of the defendant." Therewith he postponed sentence until three more psychiatrists could pass on Helen Love...
Ambitious Labor Leader John Llewellyn Lewis, who resides in the Alexandria, Va. house once occupied by George Washington's physician, bought the Alexandria house where Revolutionary General Henry ("Light-horse Harry") Lee is reputed to have delivered his famed oration on Washington's death...
Immediately given first aid followed by a physician's treatment in the accident which resulted after a ski broke in a fast telemark, Conant was rushed to the home of his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Martin of Plainfield, Vermont, who were with him on the scene of the catastrophe, and thence by train to Boston. Current belief is that he will be confined to his home on Quincy Street for several days...
Sculptor Rush, son of a ship carpenter, started his career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with...