Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only Bette Davis, by sincere overacting, gets this piece going at all; the rest of the cast is about as interesting as wet wash. A limp example: the uncle (Charlie Ruggles) who continually maunders, "Is there anything I can do?" Many cinemaddicts may yearn to snarl, "Yes. go away...
...heroine sometimes tried to follow threads of reality through her blacked-out mind, but her memory was "swathed in wet gray chiffon that stuck to the . . . part she wanted most to examine." One, night, in a brief moment of sanity, she thought: "Here on [a] narrow cot, clothed in a numbered nightgown, [I lie] with women who [are] insane and [I am] one of them." After almost a year at Juniper Hill, Virginia was pronounced cured-but not before she and her fellow patients had been treated to shock therapy, hydrotherapy, psychoanalytical questionings, paraldehyde dosings and old-fashioned madhouse discipline...
...York at St. Louis, postponed, wet grounds...
Stalled for the past five days by rain and wet grounds, the intramural teams got under way again on Monday. In the hardball league, Eliot house, which finally got a team organized Monday, whipped Dunster 8 to 3, and yesterday Dudley swamped Leverett 13 to 0. In softball, Lowell picked up two points as Winthrop and Adams defaulted to the Bellboys on Monday and Tuesday...
...greatest jazzman of them all, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, was back on Broadway. The word spread, the devotees gathered. But jazz purists who went prospecting for his golden trumpet notes had to pan out a lot of wet gravel...