Word: sherwoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hope for Lepers. Doctors can now use "transfer factor," a substance first isolated from the white cells of blood by New York University's Dr. H. Sherwood Lawrence in 1948, to transfer specific immune responses from a normal individual to another who has an immune system deficiency...
...PUDDING BUBBLED into the twentieth century, turning out a few good shows and many more atrocious ones. One can draw an historical line separating the "modern" and "pre-modern" Pudding eras at World War I. In the spring of 1917, Robert Sherwood '18 had his Barnum Was Right hip-deep into rechearsals with opening night a bare fortnight away. The show was abruptly cancelled and the entire cast marched off to war. Several received decorations for bravery. One of the principle characters and six chorus "girls" gave their lives. Sherwood himself left to serve in the Canadian Black Watch...
...first screen version of Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, and one of the more intriguing works of German Expressionism. Special effects within a natural setting create a macabre atmosphere unmatched by the remakes but Max Schreek, as the vampire, doesn't approach Bela Lugosi, Petrified Forest. Robert Sherwood's broadway hit about innocent people held captive by a futhless gang at a desert diner was transferred to the screen with little visual imagination, but retained its fine performances by idealist Leslie Howard, romantic Bette Davis, and killer Humphrey Bogart in his first major role, 1936. Key Largo, Maxwell Anderson...
Father was a different part of the problem. There were "other women" in the life of Economist Edward Sherwood Mead: "One of them had red hair, and one almost persuaded him to marry her." His voice was "loud and direct," the "imperative mode was very congenial to him," and when angry, he resorted to sarcasm and bitter parody. His judgments were "conservative" and "money-bound." He wanted Margaret to become a nurse because she was "not strong enough" to study for a college degree-though at the time she was carrying a heavy high school program, making the costumes...
Petrilled Forest. The Loeb is determined to quench the local appetite for dramas of the Depression West and there is no reason why Sherwood Anderson's classic shouldn't leave the customers satisfied...