Word: veterinarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles veterinarian and a taxidermist drove out one day last week to the San Fernando Valley ranch of the late Tom Mix, walked into a shed where the most famous horse since Pegasus stood in the mildness of his last few moments alive. The horse was Tony, who was a scrawny yearling following a vegetable wagon around a small town in Arizona when Tom Mix gave $12.50 for him. In the years that followed, Tony became the valiant central symbol of a cinematic age of innocence, the hero of millions of small boys and some of the best juveniles ever...
...scene long ago, had grown so painfully stiff that someone had to be kept in his stall to help him to his feet. Since Tom Mix's death two years ago, there had been a vacant look in Tony's eye. He was scarcely aware of the veterinarian and taxidermist when they came in. A few seconds later he was no longer aware of anything. The veterinarian had injected five ounces of chloral hydrate into Tony's heart. At once the taxidermist set about flaying the cadaver so that Tony (stuffed) may tour the country...
...this way the government has cleared the deferment haze, and the war machine is provided with valuable parts. And if the government can pay for a veterinarian's education in wartime it can certainly help to train its peacetime leaders. The United States has learned that the federal government must assume responsibility for making the economy work. It is time the nineteenth century's tag-line "equal educational opportunities" was modernized. America is the only country in the world whose educational system has no national coherence. Through the present emergency bill the national government can enter the field of education...
...good story. The dog was killed too soon, and the children criminally deceived. This brings an intense crisis to 1) the parents, engaged in a cold battle for Emily's affections; 2) the half-caste veterinarian, who killed the dog against his better judgment; 3) a lordly young Brahmin friend of his; 4) Emily, whose ingenious resolve for vengeance lands her high & dry on the lonely edge of maturity; 5) at length, the whole community, in a plausible yet somehow ridiculous finale...
...Hitler appointed to be Führer of National Socialist Health turned out to be a naturopath. He licensed faith healers and all manner of quacks. Last year this Führer, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, died. His successor is not, as strongly rumored in U. S. medical circles, a veterinarian, but is in fact a well-trained pediatrician named Leonardo Conti, son of Hitler's solidly buxom "Führerin of Midwives...