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Word: wheelchairs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep at his writing, Porter had his piano raised on wooden blocks so that he could sit at it in a wheelchair. Then he was on crutches for years. He can get around now for short stretches without a cane, though he usually carries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...human punching bag, is getting the treatment because he wants to rescue Alexis from her sinister mate (Zachary Scott) and retire from bad fights to paint bad pictures. The catch is that the wicked husband is paralyzed from the waist down, and thinks up his villainies in a wheelchair. No hero can sock a man in a wheelchair; no heroine can divorce him. How to get rid of him? Whiplash solves the problem in characteristically brisk and brutal fashion by having him mashed to a pulp, wheelchair & all, by a taxi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Sophie Tucker, 64, everlasting "Last of the Red-Hot Mammas," trotted stoutly into a veterans' hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. to spread a little cheer. In the course of the proceedings, square-rigged Sophie lost her footing, went hard aground, broke two toes, departed the hospital in a wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...chance that he would live. The three-hour operation was successful. When he left the operating room, Don's bluish complexion was pink. Doctors believe that Fegenbush, never able to take more than ten steps at a time, will be able to leave his wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hearts & Scalpels | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Soprano Marjorie Lawrence, who made a wheelchair comeback in 1942 after being stricken with polio, prepared to come back a little more this week. After months of practice she would sing standing-in Elektra in Chicago's Orchestra Hall-for the first time in six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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