Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore, applauding at every lecture may be an unconscious factor in determining the intellectual approach of, the speaker, particularly if he be still plastic and progressive in spirit. The possibility that it may be harmful to the teacher should discredit its use. In addition the undergraduates themselves on some occasions would often not like to applaud, but feel it too great a rebuff not to do so. At other times it commences with one enthusiast and it is only participated in by others out of politeness. With all these things taken into consideration, it would seem best to discontinue this...
Died. Dr. Luis Philander Berne, 48, Manhattan plastic surgeon; of heart disease, while operating on the nose of Mrs. Muriel Sisnan Dodge, second wife of Motorboatman Horace E. Dodge; in Manhattan. Other famed patients of Dr. Berne have-been Actress Fannie Brice, Fisticuffer Jack Dempsey, Actor Bert Lytell, Singer Georgie Price and (rumored) Queen Marie of Rumania. The operation on the nose of Mrs. Dodge was successfully completed by a Dr. Joseph Safian, face-lifter to Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
...comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through its vitality, rich color, plastic form, pulsating rhythm brings us a vision of the beauty and power of which this life is capable, when that vision is brought to us by such a master...
Some of his cases: the General, dying manfully of hardening of the arteries; Martha Purefoy, desiccated old maid who should have married him; Lady Cotterick, bullying Lady Bountiful, and her neurotic wreck of a son, only partly rebuilt by plastic surgery; Emily, the Doctor's lifelong love, who tells him today she is dying of cancer, having found time for it at last. All day as he goes his rounds he is his own worst case, for he is waiting for a letter which will give the results of an examination on himself, which he thinks will tell...
...world's most famed plastic surgery hospital, Queens Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, Kent, England, ceased functioning last autumn. From its open-ing in 1917 it handled 19,000 cases. Its most skilled staff member, Dr. Harold Delf Gillies, sometimes performed 30 separate operations on a single case. He, 48 last week, born at Dunedin, N. Z., is now plastic surgeon to three London hospitals and to the Royal Air Force. U. S. dentists know him as an honorary member of their national association. Sportsmen recall him. as playing golf for England against Scotland...