Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nurse was tired. "Long day," she said. "Say you haven't got much in the way of veins. Any better on the other side?" I didn't know, I told her, so she sighed and wheeled her table of implements to my right side, applied pressure and looked for a likely vein. "Nope," she said, "better on the left side...
Actually, Bing himself does not intend to limit Patrice to soubrette roles; for one thing, there are not many in the repertory. But he thinks that "she should do things that are light in vein, not necessarily light in quality, but cheerful and scintillating. She is a cheerful personality; she makes people feel cheerful...
Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) presents Lewis Carroll's beloved classic in the characteristic vein of another children's favorite, to wit, Producer Walt Disney, but it adds no glory to either...
Possibly because of the film's obvious earnestness and calmly informative narration, no St. Louis moviegoer has protested its plentiful shots of bare-breasted women and unadorned men or its savagely raw scenes, e.g., as a test of manhood, a young warrior taps the jugular vein of a bound cow, lets the blood flow into a gourd and gulps it down...
Students and faculty spokesmen questioned by the Times' survey here said "that organizations still were willing to speak out in a nonconformist vein, but individuals tended to be more reticent...