Word: sanatoriums
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...Leaders & Old. In the midst of the seamen's strike, nobody concerned knew the whereabouts of Andrew Furuseth, president of the International Seamen's Union and for some 40 years the traditional leader of seagoing labor. The 82-year-oldster was said to have been in a sanatorium last May, but no one knew whether he was alive or dead and no one cared. His union was being run by his well-entrenched successors, old leaders who have no practical authority on the Pacific Coast and who flatly oppose the strike on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts...
...first time in the U. S. the Monte Carlo dancers presented the great shocker of the great Diaghilev era: L'Après-midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor, the throes of sexual desire, the moment of satisfaction. At the erotic conclusion one shocked lady in the audience loudly piped...
...with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send his old mother to a sanatorium...
Springs, now a smoothly running, richly endowed sanatorium. His assistant, Dr. Charles Edwin ("Ed") Irwin, 36, became the institution's new Surgeon-in-Chief. Dr. Michael Hoke, 62, happily hunted for an Atlanta office door upon which he could once more have his solitary, independent name glued in letters of gold...
Lashed to a stretcher and screeching protests, eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck was removed from Washington's Gallinger Municipal Hospital, taken to a private sanatorium at Towson, Md. for an indefinite stay. Let out in an exercise yard there, he sprinted to a 7½ ft. wire mesh fence, scaled it like a monkey, outran his astonished guards to freedom. Next day, after a Capitol charwoman found him sound asleep in his House office, authorities gave him his freedom on condition that he leave for his Seattle home...