Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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During the first night, with frightful weather continuing, Norway's coast de fenders first stole the show by sinking German advance forces, then upset the plot by falling treacherously into German hands so that their shore guns were turned against the Allies (see p. 22}. Before any thing was clear, Denmark was gobbled up by land and German troops were fighting in Norway. Meantime the first of five phases of naval operations had begun...
...German press rose in fury. A Foreign Office spokesman accused Under Secretary Welles of "extremely bad taste." It was seriously asked whether the U. S. was helping to plot the dismemberment or just listening to Allies' plans. Italian newspapers became hysterical over Italy's losses. Italian Ambassador to Paris Raffaele Guariglia called on M. Reynaud for an explanation. No one in Germany or Italy paid any attention to Mr. Welles's quiet comment on the whole thing: "Fantastic nonsense. ... I never even looked at any map which may have been in M. Reynaud's office...
...plot drones on about a houseful of servants who try to rehabilitate their bankrupt master by palming off a pretty scullery maid as a debutante, hoping she will bag a millionaire. The stage swarms with snooty butlers, comic valets, tripping parlormaids, hoity-toity housekeepers, red-nosed cooks. Higher and Higher is really floored by the Servant Problem. As though that were not enough, the show goes in for haunted rooms, visitors from Iceland, phantom coachmen, hidden wine cellars, a butlers' ball. Otherwise there is virtually no plot...
Indecency's plot is rather simple, though obviously not everybody would have thought of it. Villain is a publisher of filthy literature. Hero is Crusader Britton (Rev. R. Anderson Jardine). The publisher is in love with 1) a good girl; 2) a bad girl. The bad girl has a child by the publisher just as he is about to marry the good girl at a swanky church wedding...
...outmoded on the eve of total war. Maybe we have just grown too cynical, maybe in 1914 they still had international courtesy and men who burned to sacrifice their lives for a woman or the fatherland; but particularly when such pre-War idealism is worked into as threadbare a plot as that of "Ultimatum," we may well be permitted to respond with a sad smile...