Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little later, perfectly composed, the tough old patient said to Dr. de Gennes as though speaking of the weather, "I am suffering atrociously in my intestines." Pain quickened into torture. "Let me take off your outer clothing!" pleaded Sister Theoneste. But the Tiger was obstinate. For years he has gone to bed fully dressed, merely kicking off his slippers and loosening his collar. "Because how do I know at what moment I may get up and write?" The iron will had begun to melt when at last he let the Sister put him into night clothes...
...claim to cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery. If they go away and claim to be cured of everything from appendicitis to housemaid's knee that is their business. The Pencil Man will not take from any patient more than three Austrian shillings (42?). He seldom pencils a man or woman for more than 30 seconds, treats hundreds of poor "patients" free. In 40 years of eccentric hocus-pocus he has never broken two rules: i) The groups he pencils must always be of assorted sexes...
Song of Love (Columbia). An exposure of the difficulties of backstage motherhood reaches its denouement when one Buddy Gibson (David Durand) surprises both the cinematic and the actual audience by singing the theme song, "Take...
...study in the Paris Latin Quarter not far from the grey, ornate pile of the Church of Saint Sulpice, newsgatherers waited last week for Father Jean Verdier, a modest little priest who for years has guided the thoughts and prepared the minds of hundreds of young women preparing to take the veil at the novitiate school of St. Sulpice...
...never be a Jewish national home. It will always be an international home for Jews, Christians and Arabs alike." Added Dr. Magnes: Jews must renounce the idea of political domination, should be willing to make Palestine a binational State, a holy land for all nations. Not kindly did Zionists take to these suggestions. Doar Hayom, Jerusalem Hebrew daily, immediately demanded Dr. Magnes's resignation from the University. Said The New Palestine, U. S. official Zionist weekly: "Does Dr. Magnes imagine that he imbues the Arab leaders . . . with a sense of peace and responsibility when, as the fruit of their...