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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temporary stopgaps. She wears one of these in Captain January. She is expert at such games as checkers, pachisi, casino and "squares"-connecting dots on a piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps rabbits and a flock of bantam chickens. The chickens operate with punctuality. Each night Shirley takes home an egg to eat for breakfast. In addition to satisfying constant...
...that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted out. In his intensity Surgeon Erdmann cut his own finger twice. Then he and his surgical team of professors speedily cleaned up Dr. Brooks's abscess, inserted a rubber drain, closed the incision...
...Alderson scrabbled in the shops of Hempstead, L. I. for cheap vegetables such as beets, carrots, potatoes. Twice a week the family also ate cheap meat, low grade eggs. A can of pears was a treat for dessert. Supper consisted of sandwiches with cocoa, tea or milk. Last week Methodist Alderson reported the five had not lost weight, had suffered no ailments worse than colds...
...from this point of view also is the implication that the former president of the Peace Society and the Phillips Brooks House representative on the committee (both of whom led the opposition to national affiliation) are members of a "tireless and determined radical group" merely because they accept the twice-expressed will of the majority. I also liked the title of the editorial--"Shot-Gun Wedding." It is loaded with pertinent implications...
...McPherson Oilers" and "Universals" had met twice before. Both times-once in the final of the National A. A. U. championships three weeks ago-Oilers had won easily. Last week overconfident, they let the Universals run up a lead early in the game, depending on their own versatile attack to cut it down. Three times the Oilers almost did so, but early in the second period their star forward, Francis Johnson, was taken out of the game for fouling. Universals, playing inspired basketball, led by Forward Carl Knowles, built up their lead to 44-to-38, with five minutes left...