Word: brink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Producer Charles B. Cochran lamented: "I was getting going again, but Hitler put me right out." Others beside Producer Cochran were put out. Of 43 theatres in London, all but 14 were dark, and even among the few plays still on the boards some teetered desperately on the brink. One walloping success of which the West End could boast was the hiss-the-villain Victorian cabaret, "Ridgeway's Late Joys," put on with beer and hot dogs at the Players' Theatre, atop an old five-story house near Covent Garden...
...Whoa, Mr. President," cried the Detroit News, sensing in Franklin Roosevelt's nonbelligerent intervention a pull toward war. Hundreds of letters approved (8-to-1) the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's, bitter declaration that the President, unless checked, would take the U. S. over the brink...
Brother Joseph, munitions crook, Brother Laurent, biologist. Best sequences: ratlike professional jealousies between two of Laurent's superiors; Laurent's innocent involvement in a cumulative scandal culminating, on the brink of World War I, in the ruin of his career. Worst: goo-goo over Cecile and her baby. The book's literary style, if any, is murdered by a have-you-seen-the-garden-of-my-aunt translation...
...body when it is implied (as it is so often in public statements these days) that our choice is a clear-cut one between democracy a la mode 1925 and a Nazified world. For what it is worth, my own predictions is that the western world stands on the brink of revolutionary developments which would, even with Allied victory, leave little in Europe recalling the democratic institutions we have known. And in such a world America would perforce be carried long way on the road to regimentation. But with Allied victory this regimentation would be self-imposed and milder...
...Mail last week as the full gravity of the Norwegian debacle filtered through the blackout of official information. That Hitler had succeeded in snatching a neutral state from under the very muzzles of British naval guns could not be denied, and Neville Chamberlain's Government teetered on the brink of its worst political crisis. Millions of Britons wanted to know, said Laborite Ellen Wilkinson, how Hitler could seize Norway "with 1,500 men and three brass bands...