Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In this fluent, zestful biography, Author Kobler shows how, in the Age of Reason, John Hunter's profession was largely a slit-or-miss affair. Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife. Untrained midwives...
I do not speak or think in such terms as "the common man." I leave such patronizing concepts to the liberals. If, by "common man," you meant the lower-income groups, I do not regard incompetence as the exclusive, collective attribute of any group or class, lower or upper. I...
A journalist for 53 years, Yalman to the end refused to be humbled. "This sort of thing has happened to me before," wrote Yalman, who has been imprisoned twice before, gunned down once by an assassin, in a farewell to his readers. "But I am grateful to the Almighty to...
In Judge Sacotte's opinion, the call girls "have one feature in common: an extraordinary facility in spending money. As a consequence, their legitimate profession -if they have one-never earns them enough. Hence the necessity to obtain extra money through a partner of the moment, announced by telephone...
The grand old man of U.S. life insurance turned 80 last week, took time out to enjoy a birthday dinner at Manhattan's Union Club and to admire the hundreds of cards that festooned the bottle-green walls of his office in the Empire State Building. But otherwise, it...