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Still another New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March), a candidate for Governor, is about to marry still another shrew (Susan Hayward). The witch promptly embodies herself as Miss Lake, nude in the obscuring smoke of a hotel fire, and sets about hexing Wooley into hopeless love with her. Though she wears his pajamas, gets into his bed, makes a shambles of his wedding, calls her father into fleshly form to help, drives Best Man Robert Benchley half-witted, and witches Wooley first out of, then into, the Governorship, she makes little amatory headway until she brews a love philtre. Unluckily...
...available air and sea forces are searching for him and his crew, the number unknown here, but officials said privately the outcome looked "pretty hopeless...
...Business School's whole examination policy. As it is now, except for one course on Managerial Reports, the final exam mark and the course grade are usually one and the same. There is some attempt to count class recitation, but the professors themselves admit this is slightly hopeless. The classes are so large and the material so vast that very few students get called on more than twice a term. Labs and homework are nothing more than borderline factors. Consequently, the student goes into finals realizing that everything depends on his performance. If he happens to miss the point...
...diseased men are treated with sulfathiozol, which usually removes danger of contagion within three days, clears it up within five days. Obstinate infections get further treatment, may be released if hopeless. Syphilitics are not being drafted: their cure is more difficult. One reason for inducting gonorrheal cases: in World War I many men tried to escape the draft by deliberately contracting gonorrhea...
...post," he told Author Pearson. One such love affair he conducted for years with Actress Ellen Terry. He had no sex life until he was 29, when he was "virtually raped" by Jenny Patterson, one of his mother's singing pupils. But he decided sex relations were "hopeless as a basis for permanent relations...