Word: throat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vickers, Ltd., one of the greatest armament firms in the world, held its annual meeting in London. General the Hon. Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, chairman of the board, cleared his throat, sipped a glass of water, and read his report...
Chosen during the cruise to serve as president of the Association through next year's congress in Rio de Janeiro was shy, modest Dr. Chevalier Jackson of Philadelphia, famed for removing growths and foreign bodies from throat, windpipe, gullet, lung. At 68 he is still active in the Chevalier Jackson Bronchoscopic Clinic with which Temple University lured him away from University of Pennsylvania...
Died. Clyde ("Pea Ridge"-from Pea Ridge, Ark. his hometown) Day, 32, baseball pitcher for Brooklyn, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other teams, known for his eccentricities and hog-calling; by his own hand (slashing his throat); in Kansas City...
Valuable though less spectacular has been Dr. Williams' work in poliomyelitis, meningitis, influenza. Of late years she has been studying the streptococci which cause scarlet fever, erysipelas, puerperal (childbed) fever, septic sore throat. Last week she did not want to stop. New York physicians agreed that her work should not be interrupted. Dr. Williams' famed chief, Dr. Williams Hallock Park, who resisted a retirement move when he reached 70 last December, did not see how he could spare her. Said he: "We have very good bacteriologists in the department, but they haven't the breadth of view...
When the Louisville Courier-Journal was owned and edited by the late "Marse" Henry Watterson, he thought nothing of calling Theodore Roosevelt "as sweet a gentleman as ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat." President Roosevelt thought nothing of it either. When he returned to private life, he and Watterson dined together on the best of terms. Last week the acting editor of the Courier-Journal, now owned by Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, got into a serious scrape for much less daring impudence...