Word: padded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cats enthrall Heroine Irene Dubrovna (Simone Simon). When she is awake, her subcutaneous felinity makes real cats arch & spit; when she is asleep, cats pad across her brain. She believes legends to the effect that her medieval Serbian ancestors were half-cats, and that she cannot let husband Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) kiss her lest she sprout claws and rip him apart. Psychiatrist Dr. Judd (Tom Conway) delivers sermons on over-imagination. The tactless husband discusses Simone with Alice-at-the-office (Jane Randolph), gradually succumbs to her sympathy. After Alice is ambushed three times by Simone...
...leisurely fashion, always followed a set routine which he once described: "First, put the program on the desk so that the title of the play and the names of the actors can be accurately copied. Then lay out a box of matches, light a pipe, take a pad of yellow paper and a dozen sharply pointed pencils from a drawer. . . . What will the first line be? That is the crucial factor in the whole night's work. It is the entrance into the story. . . . Praise God from whom first sentences flow...
Then I walk over to a table in the middle of the room. In the center is a vase of wilted flowers and near it are schoolbooks and a pad of paper bearing a child's handwriting. He had just finished a composition about pioneers. In this apartment, as in thousands of others, life stopped for civilians on a word...
...turned from Boylston Street into Mt. Auburn Street. No, it wasn't case of losing confidence in yourself, because he knew that you look twice as large in all that shoulder-pad stuff. He wasn't exactly disappointed, he could always go out for crew, but what worried him was that if the team was going to be this good, he might have to drop in on the HAA and get a contribution book...
...week. In fact, said the editor of its correspondence column, "The use of iodine or mercurials in such wounds is to be discouraged or even forbidden." Reason: antiseptics may kill more body cells than bacteria, thereby prevent healing. First Aiders should do no more than stop bleeding, place a pad of sterile gauze on the wound...