Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work is being done in a specially constructed room replete with treadmill, where temperatures as low as 40 degrees below zero can be effected and the air thinned to simulate conditions of high altitude flying. There is even a special air lock leading into the chamber so that the faint can be removed without ruining the experiment...
...Unfortunately, its reverses do not stop there. On the stage, the well-known tale of the haunting influence of Maxim de Winter's dead first wife on himself (Bramwell Fletcher), his new bride (Diana Barrymore), his grim housekeeper (Florence Reed) and his great oppressive house casts only a faint and fitful spell. The long, dusky, atmospheric tunnel through which, as book and movie, Rebecca advanced upon its melodramatic climax is here only a dry uphill path. And the melodrama itself, chained to one set, bilked of half its turns & twists, lacks half its old excitement...
...church which is "only a polite club of nice people with a faint flavor of well-washed piety" can offer convincing proof, concludes Dr. Bell. "The veteran does not need readjustment soothing syrup, coddling, flattery; he needs to be told . . . that if he has any real manhood in him he will regard America as something more than a glorified factory, movie house, ball park and corner drugstore. He needs churches which make it clear that they care about him . . . that the things that really matter ... lie beyond his untrained cognizance . . . that things seen are temporal, relative, secondary; that...
...tonic for the faint-hearted, the thriller consists of a running battle of wits between the Professor and his partner in crime, the very determined District Attorney (Raymond Massey), and the murdered man's blackmailing body-guard (Dan Duryea). "Deus ex machina" solves the apparently impossible situation in an ending of which the studio (International) seems unduly proud...
...months, currency in Free China had remained steady at a black market rate of 200 Chinese dollars to one U.S. dollar. This gave rise to a faint hope that the rate might be stabilized, a start made towards a basis for postwar trade. Last week this hope went aglimmering. The Chinese dollar, which slipped after the fall of Kweilin and Liuchow, tobogganed to one-third of its previous value. Last week it took 600 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Businessmen, who have long staggered under loads of currency on their way to the bank, now hire coolies...