Word: hyper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavs, Finns, the Red Cross, Norwegians, British and the U.S.; to pay more taxes, use less gasoline, strike less often, have his wife go without silk stockings. Federal officials punched the needle into him with alternate injections of numbing anesthetic (to keep him quiet while taxes were extracted) and hyper-stimulant (to get up his dander against Hitler...
...begin with she was not the finished, versatile actress she is today. She had a tendency to overplug her comedy with exaggerated gestures and grimaces, and she had little emotional range. But gradually, especially by working with the hyper critical and candid Coward, her acting began to acquire sureness and scope. After Private Lives even Robert Benchley was encouraged to say: "Certain curmudgeons m these parts will hear with relief that Miss Lawrence has somewhat abated since her last didoes in New York. She can now express wild surprise without such feats of contortion as really ought to be saved...
...German relations: "A veritable Wandering Jew among [British] hopes is the belief in the possibility of a fresh estrangement between Germany and Russia." Working like a beaver on those hopes in Moscow last week was Britain's new Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps. All previous British attempts to win hyper sensitive, suspicious Joseph Stalin have failed, partly because of an accumulation of minor British psychological blunders, which Sir Stafford has been doing his best to avoid...
...behind his palace in Berlin, wearing a hairnet to keep his long reddish hair from falling away from the balding area. He skis in a fur cap, rides in all kinds of costume. He has himself photographed at all his sports except swimming. Because of his sensitiveness about his hyper-developed mammary glands, other guests were excluded from a Baltic beach where Hermann and his wife went bathing. But he displays no such squeamishness in regard to his guests' sensitivities. All of them are expected to frolic with his lion cub, Caesar, and distinguished visitors at Karinhall are invited...
Died. Isaac Meltzer, fiftyish, known to thousands of U. S. tourists as the hyper-peppy U. S. newsboy at Paris' Café de la Paix, in winter at Cannes and Nice; by leaping from the window of the Paris office of the New York Times...