Adair, Jean
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Adair, Jean [née Violet McNaughton] (1873–1953), character actress. With her pinched face and spinsterish appearance, Adair excelled in both comic and tragic roles, usually playing mothers and elderly aunts. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and learned her craft in touring stock companies before making her Manhattan debut in 1922. Adair is most remembered for creating the sweet murderess Aunt Martha in
Arsenic and Old Lace (1941). Her other notable performances include the nagging Mother in the expressionistic
Machinal (1928), the feisty mother‐in‐law, Mrs. Fisher, in
The Show‐Off (1932), the moralizing Aunt Demetria in
On Borrowed Time (1938), the small‐town gossip Cora Swanson in
Morning's at Seven (1939), and the modern‐day witch Miss Holroyd in
Bell, Book and Candle (1950). Adair's last Broadway performance was as the aged, saintly Rebecca Nurse in the original
The Crucible (1953).
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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Electroconvulsive Therapy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, 3rd ed.
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electroconvulsive therapy
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shock therapy
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
shock therapy see electroconvulsive therapy .
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