Word: imbroglio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outdoing itself. I refer to the Edward-Simpson resume in the Dec. 21 issue. For writing, for journalism, for wit, for rationality, it is, I think, unsurpassed in its field. I had become so fed up with the hysterical, pathetic, impassioned and - warped newspaper accounts of this now famous imbroglio that I've not bought a paper for several weeks...
...chief recommendation for a remission of this bad-tempered bickering is the necessity for England to return her attention to the critical condition of matters international. This Simpson affair has interrupted a far more important matter, the good work of keeping England out of the general imbroglio. The rearming has continued, but that alone is scarcely calculated to relieve the tension. France, refusing to pass judgment on the matriminial spat, has at the same time become quite uneasy over the state of the alliance. England must promptly forget her relatively piffling human interest story, and turn to things that...
...economic distress, gets into a dispute over the tithe, barricades his house, digs a trench to prevent the tithe-collector from taking away his stock. Shots are fired, mysterious figures slink through the fog, the fascists camp on the farm to protect it from the police. During this imbroglio, Mary's high-minded lover is pushed off a wagon by a policeman. This dislodges two pieces of shrapnel left in his brain since the War, with the result that he goes blind. Mary thereupon regrets her previous highmindedness, offers herself to her lover, but his regard for her husband...
...poems and paintings of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Daughter Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly ratty British youths with a wild craving for motor cars, just misses a homosexual imbroglio by falling for the girl next door and her roadster. Even Mrs. Hilton (Gladys Cooper), sensible matron that she is, entertains a fleeting fancy for a returned rubber planter. And, most unexpectedly of all, Roger Hilton (Philip Merivale), a financier impeccable of manner and noble of mien, has a weak...
...into a state of suspended animation, largely due to Sir John Simon's visit to Germany. Again Britain, much to the dissatisfaction of her former allies, is playing her historic role of mediator and preserver of the balance of power. One of the most favorable signs in the present imbroglio has been the enthusiastic reception given by the German populace to Britain's part as the "honest broker...