Word: womens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Severe in appearance, frequently sarcastic, a Harvard graduate (1908), Teacher Eaton is called a "pretty good egg" by St. Marks boys. He likes boys, takes groups of them on trips, is considered "good fun on a party." Rumors of "beautiful women, riotous parties" were denied by his London housekeeper. Said she: "He was a university man on a holiday. I don't think he had any friends in London. He spent most of his time in the museums and just walking the streets...
...medical staff, advertised for patients, earned $500 a month. This vexed New York doctors who complained to the municipal board of health. His priesthood repelled investigation as it attracted him patients, especially female patients. Although he had licensed physicians on his staff, he frequently examined patients himself, persuading women (many have complained to city health authorities) to strip naked except for stockings and shoes. To hesitant patients he sometimes declared that he was a graduate physician, although he had no New York State license. Usually he merely conveyed the impression of being an authorized practitioner. Doing that is a misdemeanor...
Aged 53 (last spring), Dr. Empringham rented a $5,000-per-year apartment in Manhattan. Said his janitor last week: "There was a constant stream of women and girls running into the building after him. Lots of them were beauties, too. But he was never there. It got to be a real nuisance, I can tell you." Upon further Health Department warning, he closed his Emanuel Institute...
...three men and women throw their cigarets away when the butts are between one and one and a half inches long. If the stub could be fireproofed, other careless fires could be prevented...
Kentucky is the State once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...