Word: primness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...luxurious loony bin with Town & Country interiors, brilliant Psychoanalyst Bergman handles raving patients and wolfish colleagues with equally prim professionalism. But when the institution's new head turns out to be tall, tousled, handsome Gregory Peck, she astonishes herself and the audience by turning up in his rooms on a highly unprofessional midnight visit. Since most of the medical staff seem to be only about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies, no one pays much attention when "Psychiatrist" Peck begins to twitch and grimace over a few fork marks on the tablecloth. But Analyst Bergman quickly diagnoses...
PITCHING Lost Won 4 Borowy, Chgo. 11 9 Brecheen, St. L. 15 7 Wyse, Chgo. 22 9 Burkhart, St. L. 18 10 Mungo, N. Y. 14 10 Barrett, St. L. 23 8 Passeau, Chgo. 17 12 Prim, Chgo. 13 9 Gables, Pitts. 11 11 Strincevich,Pitts.16
...Will H. Hays. He was called "The Speechless Spokesman" be cause, as the industry's Washington representative, he often seemed to be in effectual. His Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. (The Hays Office) also disliked him because he administered the motion picture code with prim inflexibility. So last week Czar Hays finally abdicated...
Last week the War Department told the story of their success. Professor H. D. Smyth, chairman of Princeton's physics department, who wrote the report, could not tell it all. But what he could tell, even in the prim language of the scientific laboratory, made the most fantastic and meaningful story to come...
...month and left it with a daily deficit; the days when German Crown Prince Wilhelm won 2,000,000 francs on the eve of World War I, in which his father and he were about to gamble away an empire; the days when gay Edward VII brought along the prim Prince of Wales (later George V) who said: "It's like a Turkish bath in there. Goodness knows how Father manages to stick it!''; and Alexandra, Tsarina of all the Russias, who brought along a whole corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled-chance...