Word: scars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treatment for arthritic knees is to remove the lining of the knee joints. But scar tissue that forms afterwards usually makes the joint surfaces stick together, causing stiffness that is often only partly relaxed by a slow, painful course of exercises. Surgeon McKeever thought that if he capped the sliding surfaces of the joints with a smooth material, he might prevent scar tissue adhesion, keep the surfaces moving freely...
...phantom, more trills than thrills. In this it differs from the original Phantom, which Universal produced in the shock-absorbing '20s as a shivery vehicle for the late multiform Lon Chaney. The 1943 Phantom is bantam-sized Claude Rains, who attempts to terrify by sheer force of character, scar tissue and Technicolor. Scuttling about in a robin's-egg blue mask, Cinemactor Rains scares nobody but his fellow cinemactors...
...director, he has made some of Hollywood's biggest successes: Dawn Patrol (first big flying film), Scar face (which started the gangster picture cycle), Sergeant York. First married to Athole Shearer (Norma's sister), Howard Hawks was divorced by her in 1940, and last year married a young scenario writer, Nancy Gross, lives with her on a new 100-acre ranch in the hills west of Los Angeles...
...never forget President Eliot," Merrill said. One day when I was stooping over in the kitchen checking on some broken dishes, someone tapped me on the back. Upon turning I immediately recognized Eliot because of the scar on his face. "Would you please see that salt and pepper shakers are sent out with the meals taken to the sick boys," Eliot said. At that time meals were delivered to men unable to come to the dining hall...
...first credit correspondents in the U.S. reported to the Mercantile Agency that Peddler James Sampson "drinks two glasses of cider brandy [applejack], plain, every morning and evening-never more; has lost a large double tooth on lower jaw, back, second from throat on left side; has a scar an inch long on his left leg kneepan; cause: cut himself with a hatchet when only three years old." Credit sleuths have been weighing financial responsibility with the most intimate details of a man's personal life ever since...