Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Love Doctor (Paramount). In the theatre this was The Boomerang, an unpretentious comedy about a doctor and a pretty nurse. As a talking picture built around that able farceur Richard Dix, it is satisfactory entertainment?even at times uproarious. It may be fairly evident when the doctor tells his nurse how to arouse the symptoms of love in a patient that she is going to practice the knowledge on him, but obviousness rather accentuates than spoils the comedy. Best shot: Dix telling his fiancée about his new job at the lunatic asylum...
...Joseph Rosenstock, new German conductor from Wiesbaden (TIME, Nov. 11) resigned. As the result of critics' railings, he admitted to nervous collapse, presented a doctor's certificate advising retirement. Artur Bodanzky, his predecessor, will return temporarily as guest conductor...
What do the authorities of Yale mean by putting out at this time news of the thirty-six degrees of Doctor of Philosophy granted to students doing special research? The intention can scarcely be to attempt to offset Yale's football victory over Princeton. What are Doctors of Philosophy compared with makers of touchdowns? There would seem to be danger that magnifying merely scholastic news may tend to throw the pale cast of thought over the team when it goes to meet Harvard...
Last week the damage suit of another onetime employe against the company was about to reach trial. Mrs. Ethelwynne Metz of Newark claimed $200,000 personal damages. Her husband wanted $50,000 for loss of her services. Moreover, Mrs. Metz's doctor, Ames Lawrence Filiponne of Newark, last week stated that Edward Metz, 6, born after Mrs. Metz had worked for U. S. Radium Corp., was also suffering from the same poison, acquired in utero. The child's affliction, if proved, promised to raise fine medico-legal points. Is he the victim of industrial hazard? Can a concern...
...York University said it had never thought of keeping flashy Quarterback Myers, a Negro, out of the game with Georgia (TIME, Nov. 11). It was explained by a reliable doctor that Myers did not play because he had "damaged severely the acromio-clavicular ligaments of his left shoulder." When Paris of Georgia forward-passed.in the second half for two scores N. Y. U. rooters held up a sign, "We Want Myers." But Myers was not even on the bench. N. Y. U. 27. Georgia...