Word: twitching
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...soon as the electric circuit is closed, the patient becomes unconscious. Then his limbs begin to twitch and he falls into a fit closely resembling epilepsy. In a few minutes he awakens, with no recollection of the convulsion. Treatments are given about three times a week, for several weeks...
...POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no head at all. A story of civic corruption in Santa Monica, with mayor dead and crooked politicians confounded...
...eggs, salad, cup custard and a pound of filet mignon. Backing out of M'Toto's presence, Mrs. Hoyt brushed against the one side of Gargantua's cage that is not glass-enclosed. Gargantua thrust a huge hand between the bars and, with a single twitch of a clawed finger, tore Mrs. Hoyt's smart costume off her back...
...inmate of one of the largest penitentiaries in the world, San Quentin. A horrible prison, through which one sees a stream of faces; solemn, accusing faces, and vacuous, prying faces that twitch and slobber in thrill-sated ecstasy at sight of one who still professes his patriotism...
...leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing to her sister in ability to make a rhinestone gown twitch with significance. In singing Zip, the show's funniest novelty song, a girl named Jean Casto, wearing horn-rimmed goggles and a tweedy sports ensemble, stops the show with the neatest trick of the musical-comedy year-a satire on a strip-tease in which she removes nothing more...