Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promotion lists from lieutenant to captain to major, perhaps to a colonelcy or even to the final glory of a general's stars. For his wife: the same, plus a lifetime with other army wives. How some of them live was told last week in a whitewashed room at Fort Jay, Governors Island...
Fortnight ago, during a radio speech from his room in Louisville's Kentucky Hotel, the Governor consumed more than half the contents of a pitcher of ice water brought him by Waiter Joe Berry. State Finance Director Dan Talbott and a State trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
...partisans disbelieved and smirked. Non-Chandler doctors pooh-poohed the poison story. Waiter Berry insisted he had filled the pitcher from the hotel's regular water supply, that no one came near him in the elevator or corridors as he took the pitcher to the Governor's room. Louisville police ridiculed it all. An "ice water guard and food inspector" was appointed to "protect" Senator Barkley. At a big Barkley rally last Week in Louisville, a monster pitcher of ice water was placed on the speaker's table. Interrupting his address dramatically, Mr. Barkley pointed...
...seconds later acrobatic Flight Lieutenant Abadia, who once was suspended from the air service for "imprudent flying," decided to finish off with a super-spectacular dive ending in a "half roll" swoop between the two grandstands, barely far enough apart for his plane to have room to pass between. Crash-one wingtip hit the Diplomatic Stand. CRASH -the plane rebounded against the Presidential Stand, burst into flame and sprayed burning gasoline as its propeller slashed human flesh. The whole flaming mass crunched down upon spectators between the stands, slithered 65 feet...
...tools. When one kitchen was too small, he set up his plank-&-barrel operating table under an apple tree. But despite these primitive conditions, says Hertzler, post-operative infections were not more frequent than in modern hospitals. The secret of successful operations, says Hertzler, is not a fancy operating room but thorough knowledge of anatomy and speed. In his own clinic, built with many a headache, he dispensed with masks. According to "Pop," they only make the operating room look like a harem, give esthetic delight to the modern surgeon who rides to the hospital in a limousine, does nothing...