Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news (and then burst into tears because stern journalistic duty had driven her to it), the Italian newspaper Il Tempo had noted that Ingrid was "knitting little things" and "rose with a certain difficulty from her seat." And it was no secret in Rome that a tall Sicilian physician had examined Ingrid and then blabbed...
...their work. Poetess Moore reads her verse as if she had just been frightened by a ferocious rabbit, Poetess Elizabeth Bishop as if she were a bored high-school sophomore, Poet Cummings as if he were an English gentleman slightly repelled by his own rowdy verses, and Poet-Physician William Carlos Williams as if he were droning out a prescription for a head cold...
Chief man in the School organization today is influential Dean Donald K. David, who is simultaneously a director of such enterprises as General Electric, R. H. Macy's, and the Boys' Club of America. Dean David succeeded Donham, who in 1942 resigned his deanship at the advice of his physician. Donham is now a professor of Human Relations at Colgate University...
...ceremonial visit to Manhattan and a month's visit around the U.S., Harry Truman settled down to routine. A little fat from his long desk-bound summer, he had been roped into a reducing contest with Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the White House physician, and his portly military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan. The President still had three pounds to lose by Thanksgiving Day (to 175). Then, after accounts were settled (at $10 for every overweight pound), he would head for three weeks at Key West and his first real vacation since last March...
...Wirt A. Warren, a mild-mannered physician with a good practice in Wichita, Kans., sat down and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice in Washington. "This will inform you," he wrote, "that I am not obeying and do not intend to obey . . . that portion of the [Selective Service] act ... providing a penalty for knowingly counseling . . . evasion of registration or service . . . The act is a law which I feel morally bound to break...