Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Humberd is the coroner of Nodaway County in northwest Missouri and the only doctor in the village of Barnard, where he was born. In Barnard lived a minor politician who weighed 427 lb. when he died last year, and a 19-year-old boy who was 7 ft. tall when he went to a CCC camp last season. Those divergents from the norms of humanity started Dr. Humberd, 40, a curly-headed bookworm, on a study of gigantism. He has hats, shoes, rings and other souvenirs of most of the circus giants...
George is impressed in spite of himself by Finchatton's story, is further impressed by the gloomy thunders of Finchatton's doctor, who explains to him that Finchatton's story is all a yarn, but symbolically true: "The realities that are overwhelming him are so monstrous and frightful that he has to transform them into this fairy tale. . . ." The doctor alarms George even further by shouting that Finchatton is right: Cainsmarsh is everywhere, and the spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality...
That there are so many barbers in Germany. Every other man is addressed as Herr Doctor...
...appealing little girl who has trouble walking because of a poorly act broken leg. They become fast friends, and O'Malley learns that she is the daughter of one John Phillips (Humphry Bogart) whom he has railroaded to the State Prison. Realizing his shortcomings, he has a famous doctor reset the girl's leg, obtains a parolo for Phillips, and, in short, "goes soft...
...earliest Hamlet in the collection is the versatile David Garrick, who appeared at the Drury Lane Theatre in the age of Doctor Johnson. Following him at the Drury Lane came John Philip Kemble, who with his methodical, regular, precise interpretation earned a lasting stage reputation...