Word: well
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from a five-day, but from a seven-night job came one early experience from which Mr. Ley learned a lesson which later was to stay well by him. He was earning $1 weekly as lamplighter for Worcester, Mass., gas lamps. Twice, on cold January nights, he skipped one light on his beat For the first omission he was rebuked; for the second, discharged. Said Mr. Ley, many years after: "The greatest of all virtues is thoroughness. Nothing is ever really done until it is done right. This lesson I learned early in life...
...burial or incineration and had rather after my death, and if practicable, before any embalming is done, that an autopsy be made upon my body by some competent person." The competent person whom he preferred is Dr. Aleś Hrdlička, who is a doctor of medicine as well as chief anthropologist for the Smithsonian Institution. "Dr. Lamb was too dear to me," said Dr. Hrdlička when the job was put up to him last week. So Major George Russell Callender, curator of the Army Medical Museum...
...predicted intellectualized human hobgoblins of the future (TIME, April 29), and last week declined to dissect his dead friend (see below), eyed his Academy colleagues and told them that they were on the average more robust and healthy than the average U. S. citizen, that their heads as well as their minds were bigger...
...stood among his councilors, taller than any, "hot-looking, heavily perfumed" ?the new king. He was 18, golden-haired, pink-and-white, husky, gusty, eager to begin the business of running England. His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was for the glory of God. That was the fashion. Solidly behind him stood...
...Katheryn Howard, young, "very small and well-rounded with a delightful open expression." She had had lovers before, took another. Off came her head. Facing the block, she said: "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpeper." She had stabbed Henry's pride. He was getting fat, middleaged. Laws were passed to make it praiseworthy to tattle on a naughty queen, to make it fatal for a royal-bride-to-be to hornswoggle the king as to her virtue...