Word: hypochondriac
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...troupe would put their foot against a train door and then keep on yanking at the doorknob till they got a man to help them. Norma, more modest, does better, lands a job as Rosmer's secretary. In Manhattan, one J. J. Hobart (Victor Moore), a hypochondriac theatrical tycoon, is being diddled by a pair of lawyers (Osgood Perkins and Charles Brown). Having lost the money he gave them to invest in a musical, they insure his life for a million dollars. Thus is created the master situation of the picture-a contest between Powell, as salesman...
...created a large following in the past five seasons in such plays as Wednesday's Child and Remember the Day. An even younger member of Seen But Not Heard's cast is a puckish 10-year-old named Raymond Roe. In his impersonation of a peewee hypochondriac who gains his end by holding his breath for protracted periods, he rises far above his material, shows a natural aptitude for high comedy...
When a strong man is recovering from a long, severe illness he is likely to be something of a hypochondriac, waiting with great eagerness for the slightest symptoms of relapse. Last week U. S. business seemed to be working itself into a similar state. There was much head-wagging over a slowing of the business pace. A December increase in world copper stocks, breaking a year-old trend, was eyed suspiciously. The automobile industry came in for a few black looks (see p. 52). And for the first time in a month, the stockmarket failed to show a net gain...
Horton is the master of simplicity, credulity, and timidness in all his parts but his combination of the trio in "His Night Out" seems to surpass many of his previous efforts. As a pill-eating hypochondriac who buys medicine for a chain of drug stores, Homer is the meekest soul imaginable. But this same meekness and utterly unsophisticated manner makes him one of the most hilarious when he undergoes a third degree and thinks he is playing "Twenty Questions" with the police force...
...does not believe that Dickens was "a simple and robust genius," thinks his "most constant and strongest emotion" was self-pity. A divided character all his life, says Kingsmill, Dickens was half-humorous, half-sentimental. Because he never succeeded in reconciling his two attitudes, he became "an incurable emotional hypochondriac, living in fear lest any breath of fresh air should penetrate into the hothouse of his inner life." Dickens' marriage was unhappy, but he did little to gain popular sympathy when, after separating from his wife, who had lived with him 22 years, borne him ten children, he published...