Word: invalided
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...Hitchcock, in a masterpiece of indirect exposition, lets the moviegoer play Peeping Tom until all at once he sees something that strikes him as-well, peculiar. That burly salesman in the second-floor flat of the modern apartment building, the one who so patiently nurses the complaining invalid wife-why does he make a number of trips out into the rain, one at 2 a.m., carrying his sample-suitcase? And why, all the next day, does he not go into the bedroom to see his wife? And why do the Venetian blinds in the bedroom stay drawn...
Devilish Fantasies. She is still on the same chaise longue. but the year is 1864, the drawing room is stuffy, cluttered, sealed against a breath of air. In this world, she finds, her name is Milly Baines, she is a total invalid, and she has a priggish, self-righteous sister who hates her. When she tells a visiting pastor that she is a woman of the future who doesn't belong in 1864, he denounces her claims as devilish fantasies...
Last week, with all the security preparations of a landing invasion, the U.S. abruptly declared the existing blue-tinted scrip invalid all over the world. G.I.s were given just seven hours to exchange their blue scrip for the new multicolored issue. The changeover was the first since 1951 but the fourth since scrip was first issued in 1946. It was ordered because counterfeiters were doing so well with the old scrip...
FAIR-TRADE laws got a setback in Florida, where the State Supreme Court for the third time held such price-fixing laws invalid...
...Carnival by the Sea, the heavy is Mrs. Albany, an aging invalid whose home, an abandoned coffee shop shaped like a huge coffeepot, stands on the barren dunes of the California coast. In two days' action, well padded with flashbacks, Mrs. Albany racks up a high score in pure malevolence. Among other things, she drives her stepson to alcoholism and her stepdaughter to an early death. She also pushes her only daughter across the brink into insanity. Her husband, a doctor, leaves home and dies in the shack of a friendly doxy...