Word: vitus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pistol shots that started the World War were fired on St. Vitus Day. When that day came round last week harassed King Alexander of Jugoslavia had harder work than ever to keep his subjects from celebrating with high glee the double murder that freed so many of them from Imperial Austria...
Over the barber shop, on the wall against which Student Princip leaned, his fellow townsmen of Sarajevo have erected a handsome plaque: "ON THIS HISTORIC SPOT GAVRILO PRINCIP HERALDED THE ADVENT OF LIBERTY ON ST. VITUS DAY, JUNE 28TH 1914." In the cemetery outside the town is a tablet to "THE HEROES OF ST. VITUS DAY," Shooter Princip, Nedielko Cabrinovic, whose clumsily thrown bomb glanced harmlessly off Archduke Franz Ferdinand's shoulder earlier in the day, and Trifko Grabez who helped Princip and Cabrinovic get their weapons from Serbia...
...Other saintly patrons against physical ills: Giles (cripples), Erasmus (colic and cramps), Vitus (epilepsy, nervousness), Lawrence (lumbago), Benedict (poison), Timothy (stomach trouble), Apollonia (toothache), Anthony (pestilence), Catherine of Siena (headache), Thomas (blindness...
Millions of Germans scanned anxiously the States list of grounds for sterilization: 1) hereditary deafness; 2) hereditary alcoholism; 3) hereditary blindness; 4) St. Vitus' dance; 5) epilepsy 6) manic-depressive insanity; 7) congenital idiocy; 8) schizophrenia (split personality) and 9) severe physical deformity...
...President of the A. M. A. is Dr. Dean De Witt Lewis, wealthy Baltimore (Johns Hopkins) surgeon, elected last year. Elected last week to be president for 1934-35 was Dr. Walter Lawrence Bierring. 64, rich Des Moines internist, able diagnostician, a descendant of Vitus Jonassen Bering for whom Bering Strait was named. Dr. Bierring reads, writes and fondly speaks Danish, German, French. His polyglot library is one of Des Moines' most extensive. He takes a brief case full of books on his frequent lecture tours of Iowa, reads as his chauffeur drives him between communities. Des Moines hostesses...