Search Details

Word: twitmyer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...comedian, suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Speechless, gibbering, he seemed unlikely to recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder." Said Comedian Tinney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

| 1 |