Word: teacup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hackles with his Rope's End in 1929, can still summon up goosebumps. No crude spook or corpse melodrama, no bloody bundle of closet horrors, Angel Street, which played in London under the title Gaslight, has the good old English knack of brewing a thriller in a teacup, of making a Victorian parlor more menacing than an opium den, of giving to gaitered footsteps a carpet-slippery stealth. This spooky tale of London's gaslit era creates suspense, not by keeping the audience in ignorance, but by making it doubt what it knows. It builds up tension...
...appear on a radio program. Said Mrs. Clack: "I told him he mustn't ask me to drain abscesses on children. I couldn't stand seeing them suffer." Then one day the Clacks were called to treat a baby with an abscess "as big as a teacup." That case changed her mind, "because after I helped him the baby didn't suffer any more...