Word: thoughtful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work. A serum has been produced, which, if administered in this early stage, has had considerable effect in checking the affliction, especially in the severe cases. One of the purposes of the Commission is to educate doctors to judge the case before the paralysis sets in, which was heretofore thought impossible...
...sick, sick man for some time has been Delaware's T. Coleman du Pont. Last year he had to have his larynx removed. Last month his doctors told him they thought he would be well enough to take his seat with the rest of the Senators when Congress met. But he was not so able, so last week he wrote two letters-one to Vice President Dawes, one to Governor Robinson of Delaware-resigning. Thus ended a Senate career which began seven years ago by appointment and was continued four years ago by popular election. His health kept Senator...
Most people thought until quite recently that pneumonia was a disease in which one grew rapidly worse until THE CRISIS, whereupon one either died or definitely recovered, unless there was a RELAPSE. These old-fashioned ideas have been strikingly challenged by the King of England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy...
...They thought her a female Ford. She always traveled by motor, in a long luxurious limousine, with a duplicate car following behind. "I have not an hour to lose on the road, in case of breakdowns," she would explain, "I say with the Americans, whose methods I follow, 'Time is money...
Among the few eminent persons thought to have been innocently gulled was mentioned His Eminence Louis Ernest Cardinal Dubois, venerable Archbishop of Paris...