Word: pital
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the 16th victim died. The town began to buzz with ugly rumors. The townspeople began to call it "I'HÔpital de la Mort." Dr. Denis ordered all gynecological patients isolated in private rooms behind locked doors. By mistake, one patient was taken to a ward after her operation. Her death was the 17th...
Except for a few artist friends, no one thought much of his work. The one exhibition of his paintings was a fiasco. But when he finally died at 36, in the Hópital de la Charité, 25 years ago this week, Paris flocked to his funeral. An endless cortege of artists and models followed the hearse to the cemetery. Along the way gendarmes, who had arrested him with painful regularity, saluted the flower-decked coffin...
What paraplegics fear most is spending empty months or years forgotten in Veterans' Administration hospitals. The paraplegics at Army's England General Hos pital last fortnight published the first issue of a tiny, one-page newspaper which asked editorially for "one centrally located hospital to treat all such cases." Paraplegics in Brigham (Utah), New York City and Indiana wanted the same thing...
...begins with a greying head nurse (Irene Dunne) waiting in a London hos pital for the return of her son from the disastrous Dieppe Commando raid. While she waits, the picture slips with a loud grinding of gears into the flashback that takes up most of the film...
...system gives every soldier a sense of continuous progress, leaves no room for developing a feeling of hopelessness. A man who has lost an arm may be told by the nurse on the plane back from Africa just what an artificial limb can do for him. In the hos pital he will start learning to use the appliance and begin studying a new vocation, civilian or Army. A one-armed pilot who is to become an instructor will have started learning how to teach before going to a Redistribution center for assignment to more schooling or duty...