Word: froth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says the book's blurb: "In Bed We Cry is filled with the undercurrents of a world at war, but its primary concern is with the froth...
...effects of shock, which is essentially a disorder of the blood stream (the body tissues seem to absorb the blood's natural plasma). Sulfa drugs and tetanus serum have reduced danger of infections. In use of antitoxin for gas gangrene-the bacterial infection that causes a wound to froth-Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently: "We are still wondering whether we can get a vaccine for gas gangrene . . . but [the Russians] have the vaccine and they have reduced the fatality rate to about one and a half percent...
Holiday Inn (Paramount). This first cinema conjunction of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is a box-office bargain-an effervescent musical, spiced with 13 pleasant Irving Berlin melodies. It is whipped into expert froth by Producer-Director Mark Sandrich, maker of most of the Astaire-Rogers musicals...
...Provincetown. The Cape was a great place for liquor smuggling in those days, and outlanders flocked to the isolated village at the end of the Cape for drinking, dancing and "freedom." When Prohibition went, part of the excitement went too, but none of the tourists. Now "the churning froth of summer people [has become] so dense it seems like some monstrous growth climbing up over the little white houses, and one wishes that an equally monstrous hose could be taken to it, making the place clean again." Tourists are one subject about which Author Vorse can be more native than...
Usually hopeful of being able to work up a little conventional froth over spirited Mrs. Hutchins' unconventional work, Chicagoans could do nothing but admire Young Mother. The artist's other offerings-terra cotta heads and oil paintings-were sober, sound and slight. Views of the University of Chicago's Hutchins family-especially of Daughter Franja-were plentiful. The artist portrayed her striking self as long-necked, with large black eyes, long black hair simply bobbed, a long and narrow face. Her husband was rendered with a brooding face against a red background...