Word: lightheadedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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My Dream Is Yours (Warner) is a lightheaded musical as full of color and tunes as a jukebox. It has all been done before-frequently much better. A sort of musicomedy The Hucksters, it involves a radio talent scout (Jack Carson), his Hollywood boss (Adolphe Menjou) and a blonde disc...
The paintings and drawings, done on the Riviera in 1946, had none of the nightmare violence that characterized Picasso's wartime work. Goats, nymphs, centaurs, children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner...
Some seemed to make a little game out of their dying-perhaps out of indecision, perhaps out of ignorance, or even some kind of lightheaded disrespect of the high seriousness of Japanese suicide. One day the marines observed a circle of about 50 Japanese, including several small children, gaily tossing...
Steps toward Rescue. Continuous rowing uses up more energy than it is worth. When in a lifeboat "do not sing or shout. By doing so you use up your strength and lose valuable water in your breath." Mirages occur at sea as in the desert. "Men adrift in northern latitudes...
Care of Wounds. "Wash or douche the wound with clean salt water; this may sting when applied to a raw area but it is good local treatment. Do not attempt vigorous cleaning of fuel oil from a wound; the oil is unlikely to do harm. . . . Sick men are apt to...