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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under this rule most U. S. Medicine is practiced out of sight and sound of the rest of the country, and brave or foolhardy is the doctor who dares to speak out to the laity on a particular medical or surgical case, a disease or treatment, a research project. As a result Medicine, by & large, has the worst press relations of any U. S. profession...
...time he had become a Japanese citizen Hearn, no longer a bohemian, insisted that "no boy or girl should ever be left unguarded." His son recalls him as too strict in his morality, declares that at the sight of some modern customs he "would surely have lost consciousness...
...Dobbs, taking Howard's share of gold and agreeing to meet him in the nearest city, went on alone. Soon bad blood broke out; each was afraid to sleep lest the other kill him. One night Dobbs shot Curtin, robbed him, left him for dead. But, almost within sight of the city and safety, Dobbs encountered three rascally peasants, who killed him for the sake of his ragged clothes and footsore burros. When they found the little sacks of gold dust they did not know what to make of them, emptied them in disgust...
...they ride full tilt across the campuses of America, mounted on such noble horses as UNAMERICAN and SUBVERSIVE and UNPATRIOTIC, and hunting down foxy Communism and Fascism. The air is already filled, so to speak, with their cries of "yoicks," and occasionally there is a 'view halloo" as they sight the brush in the form of some anti-war demonstration or students' political organization...
Eleven years ago Savo's baggy clothes and shuffling gait began to be seen in such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even...