Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle the globe faster than U. S. newshawks; in 1934 he gave British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley a brief but dizzy journalistic whirl; possibly his worst fiasco was the Daily Mail campaign "Baldwin Must...
France. Unlike the German army, the French army does not strut. The French people are proud of their soldiers, but do not worship them. Since the fiasco of General Boulanger's attempt at a military dictatorship in the 1880s and the Dreyfus case in the '90s, the French army has eschewed politics...
...bearing a major burden in their respective departments? Is the transition to the new plan sufficient reason for their unprecedented discharge when they were normally slated for renewals of their appointments? Is this action a continuation of the frozen budget policy said to be responsible for the Walsh-Sweezy fiasco? Has many attention been paid to the Committee's suggestion for a more flexible budget? Will Harvard, by this rude action, lose the reputation for decency which has helped to make it famous...
...Brown Danube (by Burnet Hershey) is the season's fifth anti-fascist fiasco. Like the others it falls short in imagination and scope. Unlike the others, it manages-simply as a florid, stagy melodrama-to keep moving. The story of a noble Austrian family who get in dutch after Anschluss, it tells of a beautiful princess who, to save her brother's life, agrees to marry a brutal Nazi Commissioner, of a sly old grandfather who has the winning card up his sleeve. In the end the harassed nobles get safely across the frontier-into Ruritania...
Although MGM has finally severed the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy due, owing to the "Sweetheart" fiasco, they just couldn't keep them completely apart. The lovers are now sharing the double bill at Loew's State and Orpheum with a change in soul-mates...