Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Traipsing noisily on the heels of M. G. M.'s more pretentious Boom Town (TIME, Aug. 26), Flowing Geld indicates that Hollywood has found the U. S. oil industry an acceptable new background for rehashing lusty old melodrama...
...carried it by 280,000 in 1938, are wondering whether Wendell Willkie is the man who can carry it by 750,000 in November. They sat down in the Lodge room, munched at their 75? luncheon, while the ladies of the Eastern Star fluttered happily in the background. They watched the candidate, quick, easy, confident, listened to him, respectful of their judgments on the earthy matters they knew about, direct in his plumbings of their expertness. To the leaders, to Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Illinois's Senatorial candidate Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, who stopped by for a chat...
...need of unity in the face of Hitler's threat; 2) the Conservatives' overwhelming majority in the House of Commons. But since the illness of Conservative Leader Neville Chamberlain, another man has gradually usurped the actual leadership of the Party. He stays in the background and lets others drive, but he picks and orders the routes. That man is William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Says he: "Nobody would have believed it. It's as likely they'd have predicted I'd be Archbishop of Canterbury...
...arrival of General José Mijares Palencia and Eduardo Neri in San Antonio touched off rumors that a revolutionary council was actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...
...performed a similar service for the British with his 1933 Oscar winner, Cavalcade, knows how to dish out history without resorting to textbook technique. He likes to take a few typical characters of the period, run them through the normal complications of normal people, silhouette them against a background of great dates, deeds, land marks. Thus he fashioned The Howards into a deft exposition of the forces which combined to create...