Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as the British liner Lady Nelson docked in Boston, pier visitors were amazed to see a ship's officer standing on deck, a large rubber muzzle covering his nose, a large rubber doughnut surrounding his mouth, a limp rubber bag hanging on his chest. It was Dr. Richmond Goulden, ship's surgeon, who was modeling an oxygen mask for seasickness, invented by Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby of the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Boothby tried the new invention on four seasick passengers during the Lady Nelson's 30-day trip to British Guiana and back. It gave...
...important business event of last week was the opening of Congress and the jack-in-the-box stockmarket which it produced. Up on Franklin Roosevelt's mild opening message, stocks flopped on the next day's offering of his 1939 budget figures, with their near-record deficit (see...
Sitting on a piano at a party for Loyalist Spain in Washington, famed Writer & Wit Dorothy Parker nervously swore off humor: "I don't see how you can help being unhappy now. The humorist has never been happy, anyhow. Today he's whistling past worse graveyards to worse tunes. . . . If you had seen what I saw in Spain, you'd be serious too. And you'd be up on this piano, trying to help those people...
...without misgivings. The aunt was from the Middle West, you see. To her the glorious traditions of the Copley meant naught. Nevertheless she was not to be caught napping. Without batting an eye she ordered steamed clams for the opening round. A warm glow of pride enveloped her admiring nephew; the old lady was acquitting herself nobly. She knew the ropes. So he relaxed. But you know what pride goes before...
...merely proves once again-clop-clop, clop-clop--that the Mounties always get what they start after, whether it's an outlaw, a woman, or even a promotion, Miss Chapman pipes her lines like Little Eva. Technicolor proves that Dick Foran is red-headed and at times red-blooded, See it run. Real...