Word: southern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written two days before in his little study aboard the Indianapolis, his address bore in its plush use of adjectives the inevitable mark of having been composed under the Southern Cross. On the desks of the assembled Congressmen and Justices lay copies of it neatly mimeographed in Portuguese. As President Roosevelt sonorously began, some of his hearers leaned forward attentively to stretch their knowledge of English, others followed with the text, sentence by sentence, with their fingers so as to applaud in the right places...
...Nearly half a century ago a little boy was walking with his father and mother in a park of a city in southern France. Toward them came a distinguished-looking elderly couple-Don Pedro the Second* and his Empress. That occasion was my first introduction to Brazil...
...King Ranch employes near the scene were arrested on suspicion. Caesar Kleberg, manager of the southern division of the Ranch, Cousin of Robert Kleberg, head of the Ranch, and of Richard Kleberg, U. S. Representative from Corpus Christi, announced that he hoped the disappearance of the Blantons would be cleared up even if Kleberg employes were involved. That helped no more than search by air, auto and horseback which went on for a week...
...night after the Southern Medical Association began its annual meeting in Baltimore last week there was not a respectable hotel room for rent in the city. Doctors with pocketbooks filled and minds agog commuted from Washington 40 miles away. No medical meeting had "been so well attended since the 1920s...
Well rewarded were the troubled Southern doctors by two medical diversions at the convention: 1) an operation by which Drs. Walter Freeman & James Winston Watts of Washington actually cut the ability to worry out of the brain; 2) operations by which Dr. Hugh Hampton Young of Baltimore remodels anal, urinary and genital defects. Psychiatrists and brain surgeons stormed at each other concerning the good sense of Drs. Freeman & Watts's work...