Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...operation performed aboard Elias C. Benedict's yacht Oneida. While the yacht steamed slowly up Manhattan's East River into Long Island Sound, most of his upper left jaw and part of his palate were cut away. Five days later President Cleveland was able to walk ashore when the Oneida docked at his Massachusetts summer home. A vulcanized rubber jaw was inserted, his speech was not affected, Wall Street never knew. Not until 1917 did Surgeon Keen publish the story...
...movements are greatly exaggerated. In reaching for an object, the arm will wander aimlessly. The hand, attempting to grasp something, may remain fixed in that position, and is relaxed with difficulty. In the early years the patient may learn to walk after a fashion, and the gait is quite characteristic. The toes scrape along the floor, the heels are not brought down, and the spasm of the thigh muscles forces the individual to move in a cross-legged fashion. Speech is difficult, and not infrequently profuse salivation with drooling tends to reflect against the normal mentality of the patient...
...instructor in bibliography. At a Princeton faculty tea, Instructor Carlson lost what small self-confidence he had gained when he dropped a cup before the embarrassed ladies. Princeton students cruelly avoided him. He was fast becoming a recluse again when Student "Bud" Stillman found him sprawled on the walk, became his friend, encouraged...
...victories and four defeats, which includes a freak defeat at the hands of a lucky Middlebury team, and two expected losses in clashes with Holy Cross. The invaders chief bid for success on Soldiers Field this afternoon is pitcher Humphries, who as a freshman hurled a 12 to 3 walk-away over the Harvard first-year...
...Orleans meeting of the American Medical Association last week. Infantile paralysis was a major topic of discussion. Alice Lou Plastridge, director of physiotherapy at Warm Springs, lectured on her chief client's treatments. She averred: "He's as strong as you and I. He just doesn't walk as well as we do. But I can assure you that despite that impediment in his walk he is in splendid physical shape...