Word: corday
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...child psychology and flinches under systematic torment by the overprecocious moppet. When he finds her smoking and gulping Scotch in an unguarded moment, she agrees to give up these peccadilloes, but only if he will forgo them too. She manages to squelch his romance with a French singer (Paula Corday), and when she turns his paternal good-night kiss into something more heated, she makes Johnson recoil with the stunned horror of a man discovering that, deep down, he is an all-too-willing fiend...
...atomic-energy by-product (radioactive sodium) is being used to study blood circulation. Drs. Myron Prinzmetal and Eliot Corday of Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital inject the sodium into a patient's veins, place a Geiger counter over the heart, record the appearance of the tagged blood on a special machine. Their method, they reported, spots enlarged hearts sooner than any other...
...cute. An offer to send the text of its songs in Spanish and English drew 1,700 letters last week. Students of Spanish could take heart from the fact that its Mexican tone was achieved by an Irish-born script writer (McDonagh), a Canadian-born director (Corday), and a cast whose ingenue (Gould) was born & bred in Manhattan...
...weapon used by Charlotte Corday to murder Jean Paul Marat...
...powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte de Corday arrived in Paris, bought a kitchen knife for 40 sous, took a fiacre to Marat's residence where she was refused admittance. She then wrote two letters, flattering him, pretending that she had important information, dressed herself seductively in a gown of loose white Indian muslin, put green instead...