Word: harvey
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Hangover Square (20th Century-Fox) is the excitingly horrid story of a large, bewildered composer named George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) who overworks himself into fits of amnesia. A Scotland Yard doctor (George Sanders), who is a pioneer in criminal insanity (the year is 1903), helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right...
...Americans were Captain Robert Moyers of Iowa, and Captain Harvey Dane of New York. Both had spent many months with the ELAS guerrillas, tending their sick and wounded during the German occupation of Greece. With British permission, they crossed the lines last week and persuaded the ELAS leaders that they should free most of their hostages and thereby clear the way for a conference with the Greek Government. The Greek Premier, General Nicholas Plastiras, had announced that he would not deal with ELAS until the hostages were freed...
...Stanley Mortimer Jr., dark, beauteous, 27-year-old daughter of the late, great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing, was the No. 1 blossom on the New York Dress Institute's* list of the world's ten best-dressed women. For the first time in years Mrs. Harrison Williams failed to make the list; the Duchess of Windsor was No. 10 by "the skin of her teeth...
...Harvey. Delightful fantasy of a drinking man and his 6 ft.1½ in. rabbit pal (TIME...
...very bad indeed: she left out 20 poor poems for every good or fair one she put in. Such doctors as Edward Jenner (vaccination pioneer) and Havelock Ellis made the grade, but a list of all the doctor-poets the anthologist uncovered shows that such poetasters as William Harvey. Hippocrates, Sir William Osier, Rabelais and Morris Fishbein failed to satisfy Mrs. McDonough's critical taste. Nonetheless, a lot of doggerel got in. One of the most amusing contemporary specimens is John Fallon's Inscription for an Old Well...