Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest one afternoon last week, followed by pain in his left arm. Specialists bedded him, treated him for severe cardiac fatigue. Two days later he had the comfort of hearing that the Legislature, in special session, had passed in almost the form he wished it his "dream plan": lifting of all State, county and district (but not municipal) taxes from some 133,000 Mississippi homes valued at not more than...
Paris newshawks learned that not only Deputies but also clerks and the Chamber's whole staff of functionaries will get comfortable offices under the sod. Special safety doors are planned to permit members of the underground Chamber, in case of dire emergency, to escape directly into Paris' immense sewers-a connection that will produce no end of Gallic witticisms...
Publishers of the Harewood News are Viscount Lascelles, 15, and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, 14, sons of George VI's sister, Princess Mary, and the Earl of Harewood. Last fortnight the News, in a special edition mimeographed for an adult garden party at Harewood House, undertook "to settle once and for all" whether the publishers' father is Earl of "Hair-wood," "airwood" or "Harwood...
...last week museum and cat were the subject of public clamor. Members of the Women's Chamber of Commerce called on the mayor for repeal of the special tax from which the museum derived $239,000 last year. The city director of public welfare proposed diversion of the tax to hospitals. Pickets sweltered at City Hall complaining that the cat was an affront to Labor. Six St. Louis members of the American Artists' Congress chimed in with a demand that the museum buy "indigenous" art. "It is hard for many of us," said they, "to see the lasting...
...incomplete next book. Sums bid have not been disclosed, but are called "tremendous," meaning, probably, somewhere between $10,000 and $25,000. That publishers are bidding on a good thing seems reasonably sure. Freud's work-in-progress is a psychological study of the Old Testament, with special emphasis on Moses (who, thinks Freud, was Egyptian, not Jewish); his theme, that the Bible is an unconscious expression of man's own fears and aspirations. (This thesis he first broached 25 years ago in Totem and Taboo, one of the six major works included in the Modern Library Giant...