Word: numbing
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...action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest virtue, as it should be, is its acting. Garbo is less numb than usual and gives her best performance. John Barrymore makes the Baron a scapegrace so admirable as to be a larger blot upon the escutcheon of the Hays organization than six gangsters. Lionel Barrymore makes you believe that his collar is an inch too big for him. Good shot : the lobby...
...with my arms and finally my leg caught on some kind of a projection. I held on by my leg. Minutes passed like hours. Rats were swimming and thrashing all about me. My yells sounded hollow and strange. It was bitter cold. My legs grew more and more numb. Finally I lost my hold...
...whole body grew numb. I felt my frozen fingers slipping from the hold, and then I knew nothing more...
...grows querulous and sly. Her voice becomes a gentle whine, her hands dangle nervously as though she hoped to make a gesture, but had forgotten how. Small, slim, with red hair and green eyes, she is exhilarated in Two Kinds of Women, saturated in The Road to Reno, almost numb in Jarnegan...
...days one Vera Stone, 18, Tennessee girl, hiccoughed. She acked, eked, icked, ooked, ucked until she nearly died. Her diaphragm jerked until it ached and her arms and hands went numb. Doctors at Ripley, her home, and Memphis, where she was hospitalized, sought causes-irritation of the stomach's mucous membranes, affection of the phrenic (diaphragm) nerve, peritonitis, sleeping sickness (encephalitis lethargica), methyl chloride escaping from a mechanical refrigerator. None of these were causative. They made her gulp cold water and hold her breath. That usually stops hiccoughs, but not Vera Stone...