Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scott City, Kans., the Commission saw the Kansas half of the Dust Bowl...
...fourth generation of this remarkable cancer family was breeding away when it came to the attention of the late (1866-1931) Professor Aldred Scott Warthin, University of Michigan pathologist. From an intelligent young woman of the family, who shortly after died of cancer, Professor Warthin got the family's genealogy and history. From medical records and his own observations he learned enough to state in 1913 that "in certain families [there is] an inherited susceptibility to cancer." By 1925, when he published a second study of the G family, Dr. Warthin was surer than ever of the "recessive familial...
Pessimistic old General Winfield Scott said it would take three years and 300,000 men to put down the rebellion. But Washington socialites thought otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they climbed in their carriages, rolled 30 miles south to a hilltop above Manassas, Va. to watch the Union troops under McDowell smash through the Confederate lines in the War's first major engagement, march on to Richmond and a swift end of Secession...
...Readers' popularity spread and Professor McGuffey marched up to his famed Sixth Reader, he thought less of his pious models, drew freely on Shakespeare, Byron, Scott, Whittier, all of whom he hacked to suit his purpose. He launched a series of Great Characters, solemnly revealed that Louis XVI "took his very emetics in state, and vomited majestically in the presence of all his nobles." Of Lafayette: "Others have lived in the love of their own people; but who, like this man, has drunk his sweetest cup of welcome with another?'' But the editor's favorite Great...
...also unflattering to Warner Brothers' own product. Two Against the World-a re-make of the Warner smash Five Star Final (1931)-does not offer its famed prototype the courtesy of alteration, but simply stuffs it into a radio-station and mans it with stock company people. Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogartj is the manager of a radio-chain who, in obedience to his hypocritical boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences...