Word: knack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Once in, Stanley Baldwin made Parliament his gentleman's club, developed a knack for maneuvering among the other members which eventually left them gasping and amazed. In 1923, on the death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...
...public begins to think he is a menace. A solution, however, is handy. His clairvoyance possesses him only when he is in the presence of another woman (Jane Baxter), who serves as his "battery," charging him with psychic powers. When she retires from his life, he loses his uncomfortable knack of scooping the world on bad news...
...stage show this week is downright good fun--an Argentine orchestra which can really make ones bones tickle with its rhythmic offerings is aided by a brace of the swiftest, nimblest dancers yet contributed by South America and by Jimmy Save, a pantomimist with a definite knack...
...brilliant thumbnail caricature of Dan's amazing friend. Colonel Pettigrew, out of a sequence in which the two meet for lunch after a long separation, each hoping to borrow money from the other and neither having enough cash to pay the check. This ability and Frank Capra's knack for getting the best out of his actors are what should make Broadway Bill as widely popular and as much admired by critics as that director's other two astounding hits. As Dan Brooks, Warner Baxter gives by far his best performance; Myrna Loy is even more expert than usual...