Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ships, is barely saved from self-destruction. Director John Cromwell has handled the separate episodes in the story ably and George Bancroft scowls in convincing style, but Rich Man's Folly remains an effort rather than an achievement. It never gets under the shipbuilder's thick skin; his follies seem irrational, not tragic. The shipbuilder's son-in-law is Robert Ames, 42, who died suddenly in Manhattan last week, of edema of the brain. He had acted with Ruth Chatterton in Tomorrow & Tomorrow (released next month...
...pathologist, had noticed during the autopsies of some 200 cancer victims that their pituitaries and pancreases were generally and suspiciously abnormal. The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread. Dr. Susman verified this suspicion by irritating the skin of mice until cancers developed. Bread-fed mice showed cancers much more frequently than oat-&-cheese fed mice...
...lived idyllically for awhile. With lush enthusiasm Emil worked away at his five-act dramas. Life went on: his family forgave him, he boiled the pot with journalism, his wife fell in love with another man, recovered from it. When the War came, Emil's nearsightedness saved his skin. Then he turned to biography. His Goethe made further potboiling unnecessary...
...Perhaps the greatest tribute payable to books of the sort can be paid to All Ye People. Though living in the time of the fulfillment, the reader feels not triteness in the prophecy he has seen realized. He finishes the book with a sense of anticipation and exultation, exultation skin to that of John Bray as he rides hard to join Clarissa on the final Westward road. And 'all ye people' clap their hands...
...Gandhi watch is jerked from a fold of the Mahatma's first shawl (the one next his skin) to which he secures his large ("dollar") watch by a large ("baby's") safety pin. In England St. Gandhi wears a second and often a third shawl. The three cover him tentwise when he sits crosslegged, showing only his big toes, small hands and birdlike poll topped with stiff black & white hairs clipped to a length...