Word: basile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though nothing is actually shown but her incurring the rage of Londoners. There is no verve in it: things merely dribble along, with Jane tiring of society and the young husband tiring of Jane. In the last act, by flanking Jane with a worldly writer who might be Maugham (Basil Rathbone) and a philandering newspaper tycoon (Howard St. John), the play manages a few rallies, but never quite comes right...
This didn't prove true. If there was any buttonholing going on at the Copley, it was in the third floor room where Basil Brewer, New Bedford newspaper publisher and chief Massachusetts Taft supporter, was holding private conferences. But Parlor B, just off the main hobby, was a disconcertingly unpolitical place...
...Ronald T. Grant and E. Basil Reeve found themselves caught in this confusion early in World War II, when they treated 120 victims of bombings and accidents in England. They went on to Italy and treated 190 more (both soldiers and civilians). They soon dropped the word shock from their vocabulary, because they found it not a help but a hindrance. From the varied conditions formerly lumped as shock, Grant and Reeve sorted out six kinds of circulatory upset, and their symptoms...
...Basil Rathbone will play at being a Harvard professor tonight when he, Marlene Dietrich, and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will send off United Nations Week in New England Mutual Hall...
...Saybrook, master Basil D. Henning said the reasons for adopting the Saturday night 11 p.m. limit were to "keep the boys off the street and out of questionable or expensive places of entertainment...