Word: patches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most U. S. citizens the month of June means weddings, graduations and reacquaintance with the great outdoors. Last week, in almost every U. S. home that boasts a patch of green grass, families were thinking up ways of amusing themselves or entertaining their week end guests. For those who are too fat, too feeble or too lazy to play golf or tennis, the new-mown lawn is the No. 1 arena for summer pastimes...
Inspector Hornleigh (Twentieth Century-Fox), another Buy-British reprint from the Scotland Yard files, involves three murders and the theft of the British budget from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Not a patch on Scotland Yardman Ralph Richardson for verve and sass (see above), grey, efficient Cinemactor Gordon Harker is nevertheless painstaking proof that it takes all sorts of cinemen to man the Yard...
...piece of bone at the base of the skull, gently pushes aside the soft cerebellum in order to bare the acoustic nerve. After removing the tumor he resettles the cerebellum, tightly stitches down the tough flap of neck muscle. The bone is not replaced, for the muscle-patch is strong enough to protect the patient from injury. The entire operation is performed under a local anesthetic, which deadens only the scalp nerves. Strangely enough, gentle manipulation of a bare brain produces no pain...
...Gaylord Dillingham '40, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, generously gave the Lions permission to use the title, adding that "we'd also be glad to help them patch up their plot, which seems pretty weak." Both musicals deal with the forthcoming New York World's Fair...
...blood donor at any moment. He works 60 to 80 hours a week, and rarely reads a book. And above all, he has to watch what he prints. A Rockland, Mass, editor was driven into bankruptcy because he told how a townslady had slipped bottom-first on a patch of freshly tarred pavement and added that she was "ready for feathering" when...