Word: matchboxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...microscope. With a syringe and a glass tube fine as a hair, he injects a tiny drop of solution containing the virus, previously procured from infected guinea pigs, into the louse's intestinal opening. Then he imprisons the louse in a cage about the size of a matchbox, which has one side covered with fine silk gauze. Through the gauze the lice stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife (who have already had typhus, are now immune). After a ten-day incubation period the lice are dissected. About...
...emphasize: an exciting story, with emotional content fit for mass consumption, sharply imagined and compactly told. Director Hawks, always at his best when dealing with dangerous machinery, makes the voyages of the torpedo-launch the most exciting sequences. Good shot: the funeral, with candles on a bar and a matchbox for a coffin, of Wellington, Ronnie's fighting cockroach...