Word: hyperthyroidal
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...catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful performance of Edmund Gwenn as old 880, and the richness of McKelway's material. This material was good before the screen writers got to it, however, and they could have turned an entertaining movie into a possibly great one by leaving well...
...remaining 65 percent live mostly in the organized dormitory system provided by the university. Its life may not be quite so socially hyperthyroid as that of fraternity men but it is somewhat less costly (about $2000) and by no means devoid of the fun fraternity men allegedly have...
Tell It to the Judge (Columbia) is marital slapstick in which Robert Cummings pursues Rosalind Russell from Florida to the Adirondacks. In the best woman's magazine tradition, it depicts the U.S. male as a kitten and the female as a hyperthyroid tiger. Attorney Russell, as stalwart as the bottom man in a tumbling act, is efficient at everything, while Lawyer Cummings gets knocked out twice (once by Rosalind), skis on his face, wears a kimono and does the cooking. Typical scene: Cummings skittishly trying to sleep alongside a wet Saint Bernard...
...Delta Democrat-Times (circ. 10,884) prides himself on being a "Southern liberal." Editor James A. Wechsler of the New York Post Home News (circ. 374,706) is just as proud of being a "Northern liberal." Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight...
Cardiospasm. People who have abnormal difficulty in swallowing (because of a spasm of the esophagus) are about like those who become hyperthyroid, but a little less...