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...loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac give evidence that the transfer has done nothing to impair the knack for knife-throwing which was the obsession of their original owner...
...Hoffman suffered an attack of sleeping sickness which made him walk and talk slowly but did not impair his intellect. Like President Roosevelt, who was crippled by infantile paralysis, Dr. Hoffman indomitably overcame the major handicaps of his disease. His method of forestalling the drowsiness of sleeping sickness was to work incessantly from at least 9 a. m. until after midnight every day, to travel hard...
...gift. The grant was made in the will of the late Albert E. Pillsbury, former attorney-general of Massachusetts, who believed "that the modern feminist movement tends to take woman out of the home and put her into politics government, or business, and that this has already begun to impair the family as the basis of civilization and the measure of its advance...
...flung back into the sea. I say that is virtually a sacrilege, because it is flinging God's gifts back into His face. There must come a change in the system!" However, the Rt. Rev. James Geoffrey Gordon, Bishop Suffragan of Jarrow, felt that such talk "would seriously impair the Church's credit...
...handful of other bitter-enders, the ragged remnant of 1919, would orate against it, but nose-counters figured that well over the requisite two-thirds of the Senate would complaisantly go along with the President. In fact, approval of the World Court seemed so imminent as to impair the Administration's strategy of using this old subject as an oratorical bone for the Senate to chew on until more important matters could be prepared for its consideration...