Word: restless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find the Park Theatre, fromerly of Mineky's chain, presenting the much whispered about Czechoslovakian film "Ecstasy." The Park bills it for Adults Only, but it is nowhere near that exciting. Except for moments of genuine scenic charm it is an exceedingly pedestrian study of why girls get restless at times and will please all those who find this study sufficiently interesting to overcome the noxious results of a censor's unseeing...
According to ancient Hebrew lore a dybbuk is the restless spirit of one who has died committing a sin. Such a spirit, it once was believed, could return to earth, take heathenish possession of an innocent mortal. In the opera last week it was the tortured Hanan who bewitched Leah. To exorcise his spell she was led before an ancient rabbi to whom Sender admitted his treachery, gladly consented to renounce half his riches. Persistent prayers were said over Leah, who dropped lifeless when Hanan's spirit left her. Finale came with their love duet, frankly lyrical, typically Italian...
Symptoms: Mind "apprehensive, alert, anxious and restless . . . a peculiar analogy [to symptoms] seen in pneumonia.'' Closed eyelids tremble. "Gnawing hunger pain in pains the of ulcer.'' epigastrium not Gurgling unlike in the the intestines "and sometimes a mild watery diarrhea. . . . Increase in sexual functions...
...Author Thompson had lingered long with any of the people in Third Act in Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste...
...Hoan's hero is Abraham Lincoln. There is a bust of him in the living room, as well as a photograph, a statuette and pair of bookends of him in Mr. Hoan's study. Mr. Hoan is built on the Lincoln line-a tall, lanky, restless Midwesterner with a high twangy voice, a shaggy mop of mouse-colored hair, a heavy mustache. He and Mrs. Hoan go to the cinema occasionally, spend a good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses...