Word: formful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When smoke and cries of "Fire!" filled a Norwich, Conn, summer theater, Actress Sarah Churchill, daughter of Winston Churchill, ran true to the family form for crises. Stepping out of her role in The Philadelphia Story, she calmed the audience and told a few jokes while some burning rubbish was doused backstage...
Last year an improved extract was made from the urine of pregnant mares. In capsule form it can be taken orally. In a recent Harper Hospital Bulletin, Dr. Sandweiss reported that he began testing equine anthelone on 50 patients nine months ago. He will not announce findings until he can be sure whether the ulcers will recur. But his ultimate hope is to correct one of nature's ironies-the irony of making men especially subject to ulcers, then providing the possible cure in the glands of women...
...popcorn), Jimmy Dobbs had long considered it something of a sideline. His big business has been selling cars. A crack salesman at 26, when he made $13,000 a year, he borrowed $20,000 from his boss and teamed up with a hard-headed engineer, Horace H. Hull, to form a Memphis Ford agency...
...stores were also operating a big mail-order business in the form of "special orders." Originally, special orders were designed to help servicemen buy furniture below retail prices, on the theory that they moved their household effects frequently and that "three moves equals one fire" in wear & tear. Not much furniture was sold, but plenty of orders were filled, many for officers with a taste for diamond rings, fur coats (tax free), sterling silver and automobiles...
...South Seas, where he found several sloe-eyed mistresses, Gauguin was soon wracked by syphilis, recurrent attacks of influenza and an agonizingly persistent form of eczema. Sharp-tongued and truculent, he became embroiled in endless quarrels with his fellow Frenchmen, finally retired to an isolated island of the Marquesa group. There he hoped "that the completely savage atmosphere and solitude will, before I die, inspire me with a new fire of enthusiasm which will renew my imagination and put the finishing touch to my talent...