Word: turning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wright names the Calumet horses as most owners do-starting with the names of the sire and dam, going on from there with the aid of dictionaries, Roget's Thesaurus, friends' suggestions, etc. She has found that horses named after friends seldom turn out well...
Doctors are sure that there is an intimate connection between the psychiatric and medical treatments of rheumatism. The emotions are known to affect the glands that produce hormones, just as they affect the muscles; the hormones, in turn, affect the emotions. In the study of rheumatism, the doctors have not reached the point of being able to say which comes first-the rheumatic chicken or the emotional...
When the News series appeared, some of the joints on which Reporter Petit had boldly put the finger closed with a bang. But Miami's cops were not so ready to turn in their badges. Last week, after the News had refused to retract its charges, 55 of the city's 63 detectives filed a $1,000,000 suit for libel. That was just what the News wanted. In court, it would have the chance to prove Reporter Petit's story-and get some action at last...
Like almost all its predecessors, Two Worlds assembles the members of a family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...
...take sides. Sir Roderick's second wife, Maria, who is fighting for respect in a household that is strongly under the influence of the first Lady Shelley's relatives, hopes to win it by chivvying her two children to an impossible peak of perfection. The children in turn, hope to reward her love by achieving the impossible, even by cheating their way to the top of their classes...