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Eight times he ran for Congress on a platform of Justice-for-Navyites, once received as many as 776 votes. Five times a bill to pay the claims was passed by Senate or House, but never by both. One by one the claimants died off, but Lawyer Mann's obsession...
Mad Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances...
Wanted: Roses. Terming the Tennessee Valley Authority a "monstrous" project and President Roosevelt's utility ideas "an obsession," the hulking head of Public Service of New Jersey continued: "Since the present national Administration was inducted . . . there has been launched by it against this industry the most devastating and destructive...
For his birthday his daughters sent him Scotch whiskey, which he likes to drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman...
Psychasthenia. This is the only type of neurosis which shows no physical symptoms. The victim is ridden by an obsession of which he is aware but which he cannot control; otherwise he can think clearly. Some psychasthenics cannot avoid stepping on the cracks of sidewalks or washing their hands every...