Word: flutterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a flutter of headlines, Alfred John Gock, chairman of the board of Bank of America, announced that, if the Reconstruction Finance Corp. will underwrite the venture, his bank will give Kaiser "100% cooperation" in raising $60,000,000 to finance purchase and expansion of his $110,000,000 plant at Fontana, Calif...
...modernization" has been clumsy. Opening with a few scenes of padres flying over the Eternal City of Rome and making appropriate expressions of awe while propaganda leaflets flutter down from bombers, the picture flashes back to the Rome of Nero's day, where Christians were feared and hated as Europe's underground is by the Nazis...
...Proctor (Scott McKay) is daft in love with his neurotic, flutter-hearted patient, and has brought her to his family's home to calm her down for marriage. His-brother Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), a gay, bottom-slapping commercial artist, has a vaguely kind idea he can help straighten her out; she promptly determines to devour his soul. Douglas' wife Ann (Ruth Warrick), suspecting nothing, is all solicitude and sympathy; their little girl Lee (Connie Laird) is so infatuated that she begins to ape Evelyn's haloed mannerisms. Sick-minded Evelyn, using always the silkiest of deceptions, needs...
Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...
...Strauss's idea is to alter the flutter ratio by stiffening the fluttering parts with small areas of scar tissue. These are produced by tiny injections of an irritating drug, sylnasol, which produces small fibrous areas wherever injected. He tried sylnasol on seven married patients. Treatment was repeated every week for five or six weeks. The only discomforts reported were a feeling of thickness at the back of the throat or a five-minute earache...