Word: sickroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Wythe Williams of Connecticut's Greenwich Time wrote that a Berlin tipster had taken "a peek through the key-hole or a glance through the transom of the Goebbels sickroom," had seen the Little Doctor bundled in thick bandages- not the usual treatment for intestinal influenza...
...title of Kaufman & Hart's The Fabulous Invalid refers to the theatre, always said to be dying, never quite dead. But so many people have avoided the show, thinking it a "morbid" play laid in a sickroom, that it is now conspicuously subtitled "A Cavalcade of the Theatre...
Delighted with this cinema report not only on the U. S. No. 1 medical controversy but on laboratory, office, sickroom and operating room procedures, the heads of the A. M. A. broke their 16 min. 40 sec. silence, voted the A. M. A.'s first official endorsement of a commercial moving picture: "The Board of Trustees of the A. M. A. expresses sincere appreciation of the MARCH OF TIME'S Men of Medicine-1938 as excellent educational material revealing advance of medical science and service of medical science to the sick...
...invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic Rosary College (River Forest, Ill.) at a special White House presentation while the President looked on. A similar courtesy was extended to ailing Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty of Cities Service Co., who got an LL.D. from Temple University in his sickroom at Temple Hospital in Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction was the LL.D. bestowed on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt by John Marshall College of Law in Jersey City, N. J. Greatest celebrity beat was scored by little Elmira College (Elmira, N. Y.), which gave its Litt.D.'s to Novelist Carl Carmer (Stars Fell...
Visitors came and went. Midnight came, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock. The newshawks in the corridor tried to encourage one another by saying that they thought that the voices in the sickroom were not so loud. Someone even thought he heard laughter. Finally the door opened. Out came Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, his red hair awry, his face haggard. The Department of Labor's conciliator, James Francis Dewey, followed, his plump jowls sagging with fatigue. General Motors' Lawyer-Vice President John Thomas Smith emerged smiling. Newshawks trooped after them to the elevator...