Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle ages, was called the King's Evil, because the touch of a royal finger, generally accompanied by the gift of gold coin bearing an angel's likeness, was supposed to cure that disease. But no textbook on pathology describes the ailment which Washingtonians sometimes refer to as ''the disease of Presidents." Neither gold coins nor Presidential touch cures it, for it is something that Presidents themselves contract. Last week as newshawks filed into a White House press conference they found Franklin Roosevelt looking rather brighter-eyed than usual. He began to talk with vigor, paused...
...Lord Privy Seal, spruce young Captain Anthony Eden, who was put to bed with "heart strain" after his round of diplomatic fencing bouts with Hitler, Stalin and Pilsudski (TIME, April 1 et seq.). Chirped a glib, anonymous political correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express: "They refer to 'heart strain'. . . . The actual trouble, I understand, is thrombosis" [clogging of an artery...
...Author Carroll bothers her readers with no more political implications than she did in As the Earth Turns, but both these novels might be taken as regretful commentaries on New England's changing folkways. Author Carroll's sympathies are conservative; the "few foolish ones" of her title refer to the dwindling minority who remain stubbornly loyal to the old U. S. traditions. She compares them to birds whose love of home overcomes their fear of winter. Like As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones is a quiet and well-told tale of the second rank...
...standard textbooks in Japanese universities for 30 years, this constitutional concept was suddenly spotted two months ago by outraged Japanese jingoes (TIME, March 18). Not exactly contradicting the official legend that the Emperor of Japan is descended from the Sun Goddess, Dr. Minobe's works soberly refer to the Son of Heaven as "an organ of the Nation." What is more important, Dr. Minobe has steadfastly opposed the bullying of Japanese politicians by the Army and Navy, even advised the Government that the Cabinet can constitutionally overrule the General Staffs. To revenge themselves, the patriots dug out Dr. Minobe...
...persons still remember those cloudy days before the World War, when in common parlance it was customary to refer to the late and unlamented Turkish Empire as the "sick man of Europe." Today Europe reports that she has another sick man. His death will be much more in the nature of tragedy for a watching world than was the unheralded demise of the Turkish Empire. This wasted invalid, the League of Nations, at whose bedside the faithful Marianno stands with a melancholy smile and a hypodermic needle, is that child born so auspiciously in 1919 with racking labor pains...