Word: impactions
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...Kirbys and the Vanderhofs to the plane of that between the Montagues and Capulets. By the time Grandpa Vanderhof and Banker Kirby (Edward Arnold) eventually symbolize their inevitable meeting of minds by sitting down together to play Polly-Woily-Doodle on harmonicas. their duet affords some of the emotional impact of a Beethoven symphony...
...less real than apparent. In My Man Godfrey and The Awful Truth, humor bubbled from the contrast between the essential sanity of the people involved and the dangerous eccentricity of their behavior. Four's A Crowd, by presenting its people as fundamentally irresponsible, robs their irresponsibility of comic impact and turns what might have been high-tension comedy into mildly funny farce. Best shot: Errol Flynn, having hurriedly put an iron gate between himself and the great Danes, pausing to pull one of their tails between the bars, give it an emphatic bite...
...left of the plane after it crashed and burned, and what was left of the truth when eyewitnesses had had time to use their imaginations. Said an authoritative non-witness, William A. Patterson, president of United: "Neither of the two engines was in operation at the moment of impact. This is the first time in our experience of flying 75,000,000 miles with twin engine airplanes that we have had what appears to be simultaneous power failure of both engines...
...Adirondacks, Dr. Langmuir was struck by insects which he admitted hit him harder than any others he ever felt. Someone told him that these were the famed deer botflies. The scientist estimated that if the flies were traveling at 800 m.p.h. the force of the impact would amount to 310 pounds and that they would penetrate deeply into human flesh- whereas, in reality, they bounced off the skin after the collision...
...shock, the terrific impact of this realization upon mystic, intuitive Dictator Hitler produced one of those instantaneous and, as Nazis say, "inspired" decisions which the Führer now & then makes: MOBILIZATION! Once aroused, potent Herr Hitler, with Teutonic ruthlessness, simply smashed brave, resourceful but basically impotent Dr. Schuschnigg. Crunch!-the heavy-handed German Chancellor dispatched from Berlin Schuschnigg's Minister Without Portfolio Edmund Glaise-Horstenau to demand within five hours a decree by the Austrian Government "indefinitely postponing" the plebiscite. This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining...