Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passenger. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's wife's aunt, Mrs. Hoffman, 70, once declared that she would never ride in an ocean steamer, much less an airplane. Col. Roosevelt is now Governor of Porto Rico. Last week aged Mrs. Hoffman flew to San Juan from Miami to spend the fashionable Antillean season...
Victor Matthews Harding '31 of Hubbard Woods, Illinois, Harvard end, was reported last night by Dr. T. K. Richards '15 as resting comfortably at the Stillman Infirmary after an operation for a ruptured spleen. Dr. Richards reported Harding's condition as satisfactory though he said it would be several days before the boy was "out of the woods." At a late hour last night he was reported as resting comfortably with pulse normal and temperature only slightly high...
...facts on the case are as follows: Harding complained after the game of feeling ill, though he did not know what the matter was. There was no sign of external or internal injury, and the boy dressed and told Dr. Richards that he thought he would pass up the football dinner and theatre party and go home to bed. He asked Dr. Richards to see that his sister received his theatre tickets and thought he might join the party later in the evening...
...Richards called in Dr. L. J. Walker '04 and Dr. F. L. Richardson to assist him, and Dr. Browder, when an immediate operation was deemed necessary. Arrangements were made for a blood transfusion, and Dr. Richards operated. It is reported that had the operation been postponed an hour it would have been impossible to save Harding. His mother and sister were called in time to see him before the operation, and the blood transfusion was made immediately afterward. It was found that the spleen...
Perhaps the engineers of the plan were wise in keeping the mob at bay, knowing that the flattery of being allowed to join the elect would dim the judgement of the fawning majority and insure a complete subjection to the wills of those that rule...