Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway Melody of 1940" is fantastic as musical comedy plots go. Fred Astaire and George Murphy appear first as the tap-dancing team at a small and not too swanky cafe. There they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots Fred as a potential star. However, by a slight mistake in the front office, George Murphy is hired to be Eleanor Powell's male lead in her new show. Then comes trouble. Everything from ambitious amateur comediennes to a continually blotto George Murphy interrupts rehearsals--while Fred Astaire takes time out to woo Miss Powell, who, like Barkis...
...until last September, Britain's gates were hospitably open to refugees from three countries now incorporated in her enemy, the Reich. Some 74,000 aliens took up residence in England, in all walks of life. Only casual tab was kept on them. Restrictions on their activities were slight. Among the harmless, pitiable many were a sly, scheming few who have since served the German cause by getting employment near military centres or in war industries. Britain's huge new spy hunt involves checking up on domestic servants, railroad, shipyard and hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs...
...Cyclops (Paramount) recounts, with a slight flavor of sadism, what goes on when a shave-pate, myopic, six-foot-two scientist (Albert Dekker) acquires an up-to-date laboratory in the Amazon jungles and a mania for reducing human beings (by radium treatment) to a height of some 13 inches. Victims of this scientific zeal are Dr. Cyclops' nosy colleagues (Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian...
...Elis are primed to reverse the dual meet defeat which Michigan handed them early in the year by outscoring the Wolverines in the Nationals this weekend, but the Western conference titlists rate a slight edge. They figure to pile up a long string of fourths and fifths and nose Yale out after a bitter two-day struggle. Michigan was dealt a cruel blow in the loss of Jim Welsh, distance star, but Coach Matt Mann's squad has almost unbelievable balance and strength in the sprints and backstroke...
Every surgeon dreads, and watches for, post-operative shock. So precise is the body's harmony that even a slight disarrangement of tissues, a two-degree drop in temperature, and the loss of a cupful of blood may be enough to bog down heart and brain and produce a coma, prelude to death. Shock may also follow severe burns, wounds, lacerations, even blows in the solar plexus. Usually shock does not occur until several hours after injury. Standard treatment: warmth, blood transfusion, oxygen, water injections. But these measures often fail...