Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of this latest of his adventures isn't anything startlingly new, nor should it be. Instead, Nick and Nora Charles amuse themselves and the audience in their accustomed breezy fashion. All of the superb minor characterizations are present here again, and while you may have seen them before, you've never seen them funnier...
...wipe out the Chinese threat along the mid-China chain of lakes; and they had failed. They had caused considerable damage-had reduced most of the buildings of Yale-in-China to a soot-blackened monument of U.S. mission enterprise-but they had been chased away in no-uncertain fashion...
Until this discovery, doctors had to be satisfied with shadowy pictures of the brain made in complicated fashion: the spinal cord was tapped and all the fluid slowly drained out from the ventricles-five lakes in the center of the brain. Then air was blown up the cord or injected into the ventricles till they were filled with air and X-rays could be taken. Under this treatment patients have terrific headaches until new fluid seeps back into the brain...
Last week, like a recording needle caught in a groove, the campaign was repeating itself for the fourth time. Four Japanese columns drove south on the city. All through southeast Asia Japanese columns were moving forward in just such a fashion, using the lore acquired in four and a half years of war: swift deployment, individual initiative, shelter-and-assault. But only at Changsha were the Japanese faced with soldiers who had experience against the Japanese and who know how to apply the countertactics of dispersion, road destruction and depth-defense...
...last two theatre seasons the gentle art of murder has come into its own before the footlights, both in comedy and tragedy. Carrying on in the debonair fashion set by "Arsenic and Old Lace," the play "Mr. and Mrs. North," deals with the more hilarious aspects of homicide. A very dead and bloody corpse is discovered keeping company with the scotch bottles in the liquor closet. Naturally its unwilling hosts, the Norths, are suspected, as is their small group of friends. Among these are such sinister characters as the dead man's wife and her lover as well...