Word: generalization
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make a lady of her-but not for long. The peasant, now an officer, turns up to claim Marie, with drum rolls and general rejoicing...
...foreign policies, denounced Franklin Roosevelt's. Of the last six issues of Scribner's Commentator, five have contained stories by or about Lindbergh. December's issue had an article by Henry Ford. Other contributors are such famed isolationists as Senators Rush Holt, Worth Clark, Burt Wheeler, General Robert E. Wood...
...giving it to an inconspicuous British-born Senator (from Queensland), Hattil Spencer Foil. The most interesting part of the shake-up was that it followed the resignation of Australia's Lord Northcliffe -Sir Keith Murdoch, publisher of a chain of eleven Australian publications-as Australian press censor (Director-General of Information...
...General Electric Research Laboratories in Schenectady last week unveiled a giant new X-ray machine, 1,000,000 volts strong, the biggest X-ray machine harnessed to industrial research. It is intended to find flaws not in flesh & bone but in big steel castings. G. E.'s 400,000-volt apparatus took an hour to X-ray four inches of steel. The new machine takes less than two minutes...
...psychological exposé of these diseased characters turns into a pretty fair murder mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed...