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...required to abstain from food for four hours before the treatment. . . . When my turn came, I went into a room and lay on what looked like a surgical couch. My clothes were loosened, such things as collar studs and tiepin removed. My temples were then scrubbed with ether soap. Two electrodes were placed on my temples, and were kept in place by a rubber band across my forehead. A gag was put in my mouth...
...sleeping quarters were the rear end of one of the trucks fitted out with a desk, two chairs, couch, wash basin, toilet and shower. Along the route he added a porcelain bathtub. Over his bed he pinned a picture of his enemy, Rommel...
...orchestra surged into the Tannhäuser Bacchanale a hush spread over the backstage throng of greasepainted singers and grimy sceneshifters. The next few minutes would tell the story of Marjorie Lawrence's first comeback in opera. Gesturing from her couch, she smiled triumphantly and sang Venus' lines with a pearly soprano as lucent as ever...
...morning Oliver the physician, wearing a bailiff's brass badge pinned to his waistcoat, let himself into a dingy little room in Baltimore's Court House. It was a simple place, filing cases bulging with records of human wretchedness, a medicine table, a first-aid kit, a couch with sagging springs. There he helped unravel twisted lives caught by the law. Some got a sedative, but Dr. Oliver first tried, to win their confidence and get them to talk, "for confession and expression are good for the soul, even better than four tablespoonfuls of aromatic spirits of ammonia...
...theater as well as a successful producer as well as the wife of able Director Guthrie McClintic. Over the years Cornell has performed many near-miracles. She has made the yearning soul as good box office as the fiery body. She has made an invalid lady on a couch the essence of glamor. She has turned Shakespeare and Shaw into rousing hits. And when, next week, she brings her revival of Chekhov's The Three Sisters to Broadway, it will boast a dream production by anybody's reckoning - the most glittering cast the theater has seen, commercially...