Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed 19th-Century feminist. In 1847, after trying in vain to enter eleven medical schools, she was admitted to Geneva Medical College, at Geneva, N. Y. (now Syracuse University Medical School). At Geneva, the entire student body had demanded her admission. A Boston medical journal spoke of her with arch masculinity as "a pretty little specimen of the feminine gender . . . [who] comes into the class with great composure, takes off her bonnet . . . exposing a fine phrenology." In due time Elizabeth graduated, became the first woman M.D. in the U. S. Dr. Blackwell opened a hospital in New York (Infirmary...
Commented the Lancet, arch in the midst of bombs: "It is a strange turn of the wheel which has revealed antiseptic properties in the odour of sanctity...
...year ago Alla Nazimova decided Scriptwriter Arch Oboler was a genius, requested him to write a radio play for her. Pleased that Nazimova shared a conviction that he himself had held for years, Oboler turned out an opus called The Ivory Tower, in which, for the union minimum of $21, Nazimova made her first appearance on the air. This week Oboler will present another famed actress in her radio debut. She is Elisabeth Bergner, who will run through Oboler's latest radio work, An American is Born...
...Find Out Director Butler limited Kyser's musical antics to six less than lyric numbers by Jimmy McHugh and Johnny Mercer. The rest of the proceedings involve the attempt of three arch spooks (Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi) to do away with a young girl (Helen Parrish) about to come into her inheritance on her 21st birthday. Whether or not she will survive to attain her majority in the face of such villainy supplies a reason for allowing Kyser to grapple with grotesque props...
...music comes not simply from the screen, but from everywhere; it is as if a hearer were in the midst of the music. As the music sweeps to a climax, it froths over the proscenium arch, boils into the rear of the theatre, all but prances up & down the aisles. The hazy orchestra begins to dissolve, and weird, abstract ripples and filaments begin an unearthly ballet in Technicolor...