Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the stars, a host of minor characters make up for some of the film's chronic dreariness. Mrs. Noosbaum, "I'm tellink mine hosband . . ." is rivalled only by John Carradine, in a ghoulish carbon copy of Ephraim Tutt sniggering while hunched over an organ keyboard and by Sidney Toler, who doffs his perennial mustache but is still Charlie Chan...
...amid all the quackery and superstition, two western doctors made great and lasting contributions to the science of medicine. In his office in Danville, Ky., Dr. Ephraim McDowell performed the first operation for ovarian tumor on a brave, unanesthetized woman who lived 31 years thereafter. In Mackinac, Mich., peering through a hole in the stomach wall of a half-breed Indian named Alexis St. Martin, Dr. William Beaumont made his momentous discoveries about the action of the gastric juices...
Arthur Train, whose silk-hatted Lawyer Ephraim Tutt has long been a famous fiction, had some real lawyer trouble to worry about. His new book, Yankee Lawyer: The Autobiography of Ephraim Tutt, had caused considerable pain to the person of Lewis R. Linet. Said Philadelphia Lawyer Linet, suing for $3.50 worth of fraudulence: "I bought the book thinking it was nonfiction. [It] is a hoax upon the plaintiff and the reading public...
Author Train's Ephraim Tutt, says Tutt, is not the real Tutt. Train's Tutt, he continues, is not even consistent, changes from story to story, from "mountebank to philosopher, from shyster to philanthropist, from lawbreaker to up holder of the Constitution." The real Tutt is a rebel...
...governed by talkers ("whose influence has been multiplied a millionfold by the radio"). Metaphysical notions about the nature of the universe, and human life, do not disturb him. Nor is he disheartened by the slowness of man's progress. Though his life is closing in a clouded world, Ephraim Tutt has faith that in the U.S. "the pennants still fly gallantly and the trumpets echo to the challenge of 'Liberty and Equality' and of 'Justice for the Common...