Word: sickroom
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...wonder drug of 1943 may prove to be penicillin, obscured since its discovery in Britain in 1929, only now getting its thorough sickroom trial. It is made from a mold (TIME, Sept. 15, 1941) by a slow, laborious process. All the penicillin in the U.S. at any one time has never been more than about enough to treat 30 cases...
Smartly outfitted in white jackets, they settled down to folding gauze, bandages, and diapers in the supply room, learning how to make beds without disturbing the patient, and performing other useful services around the sickroom. The orderlies were soon armed with bottles of rubbing alcohol and tins of talcum powder to give massages and dust patients' bed-sore backs. One duty for each man was to make the rounds of the dark corridors with a nurse and hold her small, blue flashlight as she checked on her patients...
...emotional content of his two prizes consisted, according to Dr. Berg, of sexual jealousy, fear, rage, revulsion, frustration, insecurity. The situations included domestic discord, separation, divorce, sickroom scenes, courtroom scenes. The characters-"There appear to be no 'happy' characters. . . . All present single psychological profiles. They are unrelievedly bad or good...
...side is Designer Raoul Pene du Bois's most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything that occurs on the stage. Red-haired Nancy Coleman is a lovely Liberty, especially in the cool blue satin nightgown of her sickroom period. John Beal manages quite a trick in playing Tom Smith without too strong a suggestion of Eagle Scoutism. Neither manages to breathe life into Mr. Barry's symbolism...
Many an Argentine politico found his way through the doors of the big house on the Calle Suipacha last week. In a darkened sickroom little knots of them chatted briefly with their host, eagerly tried to gauge his strength and health...