Word: antisepticized
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The Shrike is also exciting theatre. In the tense antiseptic air of a hospital wardroom, the horror creeps in as the man slowly realizes that it is impossible to prove his sanity. By subtly exaggerating all his slight abnormalities, the woman convinces the doctors that he is mentally unsound. And...
"Antiseptic Age." Wild Bill campaigned around the state shaking hands, slapping backs, complimenting husbands on their wives' beauty, and asking for a third term. His key line: "If you have a problem, write to me." Reporters noticed, however, that Langer did not kiss babies. An admirer explained: "Old Bill...
During his installation address as the new rector of Edinburgh University, Sir Alexander Fleming recalled a memorable moment: It was on a morning in September 1928 that he noticed some mold on a bacteria culture plate. The mold seemed to be destroying the bacteria. "That was very unusual. Instead of...
Died. Henry Drysdale Dakin, 72. London-born research chemist whose specialization in military medicine led to his development (with Dr. Alexis Carrel) of Dakin's solution, a sodium hypochlorite wound antiseptic which saved hundreds of lives in World War I, won him the grateful thanks of France when he...
This Woman Is Dangerous (Warner) shows how Joan Crawford loses her eyesight and then finds true love in the antiseptic arms of the surgeon who saves her vision. The stumbling block to this romance is that Joan, as usual, has a lurid past: she is the brain, front woman and...