Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Antlers. A 45-year-old woman consulted Dr. Groves because she had broken the top of her thighbone a year before and it had not united. To nail the knob back on the patient's thighbone, Dr. Groves needed a solid, rodlike bone. He remembered that stags' antlers, which sprout afresh every year, are homogeneous, have no marrow cavity. So he ordered a branch of antlers, carved a bone peg three inches long, three-eighths of an inch wide, and nailed the head back onto her long thighbone. "A year later [the patient] could walk so well that...
...Young & Rubican now the producers, set up their elaborate checking system. Scooty was a Scotti dog, wrote a lady from Elgin, Ill., which she had come upon accompanying a tin cripple named Tim, hobbling toward Philadelphia to stay with a hardhearted aunt who didn't like dogs. The woman wrote that she had taken the dog, promising to give him a good home. Now Scooty knew a few tricks, and she was sure the aunt would let tiny Tim take him back if only Scooty could be allowed to bark to Auntie over the radio. This was just...
...Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pa.) select a celebrity to honor. The college, which is in the heart of Pennsylvania's steel and CIO area, has thus warmly welcomed such ladies as the late Amelia Earhart, Mrs. Martin Johnson. But it proved too hot last week for the famous woman whom students chose to honor this year-Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins...
...magazine history. It owes subscribers in unfulfilled subscriptions a sum estimated at over $1,000,000. Mr. Hearst's trustees are under no obligation to saddle any of it on his profitable Good Housekeeping, may seek to peddle it around to other women's monthlies like Woman's Home Companion (circ. 3,044,000), Ladies' Home Journal (3,047,000), McCall...
Edward Andrews, as Lennie, is convincing in a hardworking way, and Guy Robertson, as George, Lennie's guiding hand, ably succeeds to Wallace Ford's performance in the original. Claire Luce, the only woman in the play, gives more of an impression of small town degeneracy than she does of earthy crudity, but her portrayal is excellent in its contribution to the suspense. John Hamilton, Thomas Findlay, and Lester Damon are admirable in the all-important supporting parts...