Word: hypochondriacal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year in Hollywood. Much to his taste is a role that deals frivolously with love. In all his contracts, Horton includes an unwritten clause that he shall not be compelled to play a married man, kiss a woman, have any children. A bedside-bottle hypochondriac, he is nervous about his diet, which is rigidly supervised by his 82-year-old mother, who accompanies him almost everywhere. Feverishly interested in antiques, Horton has acquired all kinds of bric-a-brac on his barnstorming. He ships his finds back to "Belleigh Acres," his estate on the edge of Hollywood, to which...
...Pennsylvania in its birth was a planned society," Bates observes. To his mind Penn was a great political thinker, the Quaker Colony was democracy's brightest hope. While that prurient sadist and hypochondriac, Cotton Mather, was torturing old women for witchcraft in Massachusetts, Penn dismissed a charge of broomstick riding with the remark that there was no law in Pennsylvania against riding on broomsticks. Penn's incredibly dramatic-and in the end tragic-life has nowhere been better told...
...Bolsheviks in his native Russia hold him in great respect, Igor Stravinsky has become a Frenchman. Though he has a home in Paris, he travels restlessly and incessantly, spending much of his time in the U. S., where he lectures and teaches a composition seminar at Harvard University. A hypochondriac, afraid of the cold, he bundles himself to the ears when he goes out walking, does muscle-flexing exercises before an open window when he gets up, recently cut himself down from 40 to five French cigarets a day, worries about his own and everybody else's health. Once...