Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...
...Madame Alda (now 66) recalls it, Caruso said, "Non fa niènte. You just stand still and move your lips and I'll sing it for you." With his back to the audience, he did just that. Says Alda: "I felt like sitting up in my bed and joining in the applause...
...European of 1500, the sickness of the church might have been hard to perceive. Father Lortz points out that the church then seemed to be at the pinnacle of its strength. But, he writes, while "the facades were still standing," there was no longer "always life in the structures . . . Religious impotence was most unmistakable in the case of the higher clergy . . . Nor may we forget what a devastating effect such weaknesses . . . necessarily exert on the life of the whole community...
...Still insisting that she loved her husband, Joyce decided that she had to part from him forever to get her health back. Refusing to charge mental cruelty ("He was a fine boy and a wonderful husband"), she sued for divorce on the ground that she was allergic to her husband. In Los Angeles, Superior Judge Ray Brockmann was afraid that to grant a divorce on such a ground would set a ticklish precedent...
...week, the American Medical Association announced that its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry has withdrawn acceptance of the drug because it causes too many bad reactions: rashes, fever, blood disorders. Despite these drawbacks, sulfathiazole was lavishly used until such newer drugs as sulfadiazine and penicillin came along. Doctors may still prescribe sulfathiazole, but will want to be sure that the patient can take...