Word: reese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The break with insane traditions fostered by the supposedly sane came around midcentury, was pioneered by Dr. Duncan Macmillan at Mapperley Hospital in Nottingham, in England's Midlands. His program was virtually duplicated by Drs. Thomas P. Rees and Maxwell Jones at two hospitals in London suburbs.
Shaw's image of the romantic man, a soft and chivalrous idealizer of woman, is not a completely successful character; as usual when Shaw attempts this type, the result here is a second-rate Shelly. Ellis Rabb makes the part into a delicate caricature of delicacy, amusingly undermining any possibility...
* As did TIME, which had the outline of the story last August from Pentagon Correspondent Edwin Rees.
A Tory barrister, William Rees-Davies, answered Paget. Acting for various church groups who own much property in the red-light areas, Rees-Davies had interviewed some 250 prostitutes, concluded that what drove the vast majority into their profession was sheer "laziness." One prostitute, he reported, drove up to his...
Up popped irrepressible M.P. Emrys Hughes to ask what amount Rees-Davies had charged the girl for his professional services? "Never mind about that," snapped the barrister. The gleeful Hughes then accused Lawyer Rees-Davies of also living on the girl's earnings, and the House rocked with laughter...