Word: surgeon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat disconcerting. Fortunately, the vast majority are as ignorant as the directors. In [the cinema] Men in White, particularly, there are several outstanding mistakes. First of all, in doing intravenous work it is of paramount necessity that the tourniquet be removed -a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture-evidenced by the perfectly normal eye reflex; thirdly, he never stands at such a distance from the operating field that he works stiff-armed; fourthly, doctors don't interrogate each other as to the properties...
...Government made a martyr of Ramon Grau San Martin last January when "garage diplomacy," initiated by U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles, forced him to end his four-month regime in resignation. The youngish (49) bachelor surgeon moped off to Mexico City and exile. His successor as Provisional President, Carlos Mendieta, has played a smart and liberal game but has not erased the memory of martyred Grau from the minds of Cuba's lower classes. Still practically ungovernable, they believe in Grau. Last week 100,000 of them, students, workmen, Negroes, sailors, swarmed around the docks in Havana Harbor...
...White (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stays well inside the stern plot of Sidney Kingsley's play which is one of this year's strong contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. George Ferguson (Clark Gable) is an able young surgeon interning at St. George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White...
...Every morning the White Elephant had for his breakfast milk from the breasts of twenty-four women, who knelt naked before him . . . only mothers of recently born children. . . . Dr. O'Malley, surgeon to King Thebaw [was] always required to resuscitate and revive the ones making this sacrifice. The White Elephant walked sedately behind the women and put his trunk over their shoulders. Most of them collapsed after the ordeal, for the White Elephant was very exacting. Beside Dr. O'Malley walked a servant bearing a tray with numerous hypodermics of strychnine, nitroglycerine and other heart stimulants...
...made in the last nine years in Russia, Mexico, Spain, the U.S. Dos Passes' angle is never strictly orthodox, from either camp's point of view, but his camera is candid, though tilted perceptibly to the left. His tale of the Red Army soldier, the counter-revolutionary surgeon and the Persian merchant will not be accepted by Communists as propaganda for their cause: supporters of the Spanish Republic (which Observer Dos Passos, with a straight face but an oblique eye, calls ''The Republic of Honest Men'') will not welcome his unveiling of last year...