Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People who go to Dr. Rathbone to be relaxed usually complain of pains in their backs and legs, stiff necks, indigestion, insomnia. First thing she does is to have them thoroughly examined by a doctor. Then she massages and applies hot pads to their tensest muscles. Because relaxing is largely psychological, Dr. Rathbone puts her pupils through a course in learning how to control their muscles, cultivating the will to relax. When they go to bed, she advises them, they must repeat to themselves: "I will not permit the tensions that have beset me during the day to return...
Most likely to succeed, is Lloyd C. Douglas's "inspirational" Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal (Houghton Mifflin, $2.50), sequel to that classic of spiritual horse -doctoring, Magnificent Obsession. Perennials in any group of novels are a certain number which appear to have been written because: 1) their authors need the money, or 2) some novelists get started and can't stop. Such...
...further irritation to Dr. Cutter & friends was Dr. Meyer's associate, Warden Manus McCloskey, no doctor but a retired brigadier-general of the U. S. Army, appointed to hospital post by the Board of Cook County Commissioners...
...Alone (Warner Bros.) is a somewhat overlengthy, overwordy picturizing of James Hilton's cheery little novel of that name in which the only two pleasant characters get hanged. As an absent-minded young doctor in a small English village, Paul Muni (with a phony English accent) has a chance to act in mufti for a change, instead of doing one of those great impersonations (Pasteur, Zola, Juarez) in which he is aided by overmetic-ulous makeup and fussy mimicry. The doctor spends most of his spare time trying to keep his strict, pious, headachy wife (Flora Robson) from nagging...
...wife takes headache tablets which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...