Word: itch
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...Winnemac, the itch was inflamed to an ache, a passion for pure science and meticulous laboratory research. The purposes of Arrowsmith's contemporaries were shoddy, sloppy (there was a beefy Bible-banger, a medical Babbitt, an icy, calculating dollar-chaser). And even stronger than Arrowsmith's reactions against these was his love for the lonely, sardonic genius of the school, Max Gottlieb, Mephistophelian German Jew, brilliant immunologist, pure scientist...
Toward the end of the second act, the novelist father discovers that his cook is his own mother. Previously, it seems, he has been a humble and happily ignorant Irish youth with an itch to write stories. He made money easily enough, but was always worried about the college education he had missed. His son was to go to college and proceed from there to the composition of deathless literature instead of the ephemeral magazine humor which paid the family bills so promptly. The son preferred business. Only his affection for a girl who could write palliated his father...
...wherein two persons with absolute resemblance exchange places are always unconvincing, even though a theatrical paper not so long ago reported that an actress substituted for a wife, as is done in this picture. Here Leatrice Joy plays both the actress desirous of domesticity and the wife with an itch to act. To American audiences, it will probably seem a very serious business when they shift husbands...
...allowed an opportunity to imitate the principals, sometimes to the principals' benefit. Miss Dawn plays a violin cheerfully, as in the days of The Pink Lady, and vents her acting ability on several skits that besplatter the show. Author Paul Gerard Smith comes out of vaudeville with an itch to thrust satire at his audience. His travesties of The Hairy Ape, Ladies' Night and The Song and Dance Man will work no harm to Eugene O'Neill, Avery Hopwood and George M. Cohan...