Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some more publicity by attacking Texan White on a question of prime importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily wrote: "It is such bunk...
...Baby Betty," Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, only granddaughter and unspoiled darling of George V. When His Majesty followed the babe it was seen at once that he did look younger. His cheeks were a breeze-tanned brown. Faultlessly groomed, firm of step and with a new vitality of movement, the King-Emperor escorted Queen Mary to the waiting royal Daimler. Already Baby Betty had plumped into the back seat. "Come along, Ganpa!" piped...
...health and free institutional medical activities. The campaign was certified as a good example for physicians in other communities to follow by President-elect William Gerry Morgan of the American Medical Association, who went from his office at Washington to Manhattan to address the opening mass-meeting of the movement at the New York Academy of Medicine. Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, onetime A. M. A. president, also approved, by letter...
...Traveled or settled, he produced gargantuan quantities of newspaper criticism of all the arts. Everywhere he drank beer and talked. Says Editor Mencken: "I have heard them all, but he was the best." Critic Huneker is generally credited with having been "the chief man in the movement of the '90s on this side of the ocean." Among his books: Chopin: The Man and His Music; Ivory Apes and Peacocks; Steeplejack; Painted Veils...
...John Barnard Associates produce their work with such well informed care, and yet without receiving the recognition due to such valuable efforts is indicative of a humanistic spirit that is of great significance in an educational center. It is fortunate that Harvard is the nucleus of this worthwhile movement...