Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Others wanted Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan. Incoming President Bogle was so eagerly interested in such association politics that he was typically ungracious to those few reporters who wanted dental information for their readers. He is a big, bald man, ponderous in movement, pontifical in talk. Son of a doctor and one of the few U. S. dentists with a medical degree, he is a triple specialist - exodontia (tooth-pulling), roentgenology (xray) and oral surgery. His dental constituents admire him for being on the staff of four Nashville hospitals, for working in his office 10 to 15 hours daily...
...Little's love of dogs is a projection from his healthy boyhood in and around Boston; his fondness for Scotch terriers in particular is an inheritance from his father, James Lovell Little, earliest breeder of the type in the U. S. Mice helped him get his doctor of science degree at Harvard, where he studied biology and genetics. While he was busy at administrative duties at the Carnegie Institution, the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, he kept mice (1,000 of them at Ann Arbor), studying as an avocation the heredity of their colors, of their...
Died. Dr. Mitchell Langworthy, 38, orthopedic surgeon of Spokane; of three gunshot wounds in the abdomen. One John Salmi, insane Finn miner, thought Dr. Mitchell's report had prevented his receiving additional State compensation, entered the Doctor's office, fired on him, shot the attending nurse in the shoulder, blew out his own brains...
...would much prefer lunching among the students in Cambridge to going to stuffy Boston parties. I'm not ancient, and I hate being regarded as a venerable member of the cast of 'Strange Interlude', complained Anders, who plays the 'role of Darrell', the doctor, in O'Neill's work...
...Author. Ernest Hemingway's father, a doctor of Oak Park, Ill., last year committed suicide while in ill health. He saw little of his son, for the novelist, following, athletic U.. S. schooldays, Wardays on the Italian front during which he was severely wounded, has lived in France. Burly, laconic as his prose, he is fond of bullfighting, fishing, winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents...