Word: flappings
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...against handsome Dutch sets, Actor Laughton dominates Rembrandt, gives one of his finest performances at a dignified pace which well befits the life of his noble, if somewhat ribald, model. Best shot: Sonorous Painter Rembrandt rolling off a long, sensuous soliloquy defining Woman, while the mouths of stolid Dutchmen flap open and servant girls go glassy-eyed with dreams...
...over the country, Republicans are plucking up courage and are back on the firing line." Such were the words, prescient of Democratic defeat, spoken at the East Side High School at Paterson, N. J., by Republican Walter Evans Edge who, as a U. S. Senator (1919-29) used to flap his elbows up & down like a buzzard in flight every time he made a speech. Date of the utterance: a fortnight before that November day in 1932 when Franklin Roosevelt carried 42 of the 48 states of the Union...
Last week, after a cheery visit from the King and Queen, Princess Mary went to a private sanatorium to have her goitre out. A curving incision was made into the front of her neck. By lifting the flap of skin, the surgeon exposed the thyroid gland lying around the windpipe, excised almost all of it. He took special pains not to damage Mary's laryngeal nerves, which might cause her to choke to death, nor her parathyroid glands, which might throw her into spasms. Final step in the thyroidectomy was to bring the edges of the divided skin...
...bear it!" wailed Terrorist Mio Kraj. "The click-click of that metal flap gives me no sleep night or day. The eye that peers through that peephole hypnotizes me. It makes it impossible for me to eat or sleep. I can't bear...
...iron or steel bars. Considered fantastically extravagant abroad, these permit the U. S. jailbird to see out, give him a feeling of proximity to other human beings as they pass up & down the corridor. In Europe cell doors are solid, cheap, have a peephole closed by a metal flap. Day & night, usually at 20 minute intervals, the prisoner hears the flap click, knows that he is being peeped at by his guards. This makes most prisoners nervous, has come to be accepted as a prison commonplace. In Marseille last week one of the Balkan terrorists arrested after the assassination...