Word: wound
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...shell struck the automobile in which he and Commissar Regler were riding. Says Novelist Ernest Hemingway in his flattering preface: it might have been better for Regler if he had been killed too. He survived, but a steel splinter so nearly bisected him that the doctor who dressed the wound was able to push his hand completely through Regler's body. Author Regler escaped from France just before the Nazi invasion, is now in Mexico...
...patients did not agree. Neither did his wife. On his next call she went with him, examined the patient's symptoms as he diagnosed them. When a wound needed stitching, Mrs. Clack went at it like a neat housewife at a torn shirt. The doctor ran his fingers over the finished job, pronounced: "I couldn't have done better myself...
...were in the works at eleven studios in preparation for the new cinema season which is heralded each autumn as "Motion Pictures' Greatest Year." Publicity men beat out stories explaining that 1940 would see a swing from heavy drama to relaxing comedy and musicals. At Fox, Darryl Zanuck wound up The Great Profile, in which John Barrymore does a savage satire on his scrambled life. Frank Capra was te diously struggling over his latest comedy, Meet John Doe. Comics Jack Benny and Fred Allen were immortalizing their radio feud on celluloid at the Paramount...
...crowd wished to stay and I don't expect more than half a dozen people have left." From Hammersmith's the program jumped to Piccadilly Circus, where Vincent Sheean spoke briefly of the silent streets. Following interviews with trainmen by BBC men in Euston Station, the program wound up with J. B. Priestley...
...first she unraveled cotton yarn herself, wound it on corncobs; later a nearby thread mill made it for her. Her backyard was full of bedspreads bleaching in the sun. On each one she made about $1.75 less the cost of materials...