Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...composite name of his program gets it off to a good start. But our high hopes are not completely fulfilled. Sonja Henie's picture, as per usual, consists of fancy skating and Scandinavian smiles--with a little plot thrown in for good measure. Ray Milland and Bob Cummings, in the roles of amorous newspaper correspondents, disappoint their city editors, but please the audience. And the broad, powdery expanse of Swiss Alps is a welcome sight after "Harvard Square's rutted slush...
...Gremlik naval base, in an explosives factory at Kirikkale, and in the Zonguldak coal field. Other Germans made haste to pull up stakes, for now the handwriting on Turkey's wall was clear. Authoritative sources explained that the technicians' dismissal was necessitated by discovery of a sabotage plot. But one Turkish spokesman ominously said: "Spring is coming...
Last week, too, Editor Williams added a few new twists to the recurrent yarn from France of a plot to overthrow the Daladier Government and establish separate peace with Germany. Alleged ring leaders: shelved Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, now Minister of Justice; and ex-Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin, Deputy, capitalist spokesman and appeasement cheerleader...
Editor Williams added to his bubbling French plot the accusation that Flandin has been in communication with Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, that their liaison man is one Fernand de Brinon, Nazi-favored French journalist, that de Brinon's contact man in Germany is Otto Abetz, pre-war chief of Nazi intelligence work in France...
...honestly about sailors in his first novel (He Swung and He Missed) as Steinbeck does about farm hands. This time he adds considerable data not advertised on the recruiting posters-of life below deck, in port, under good captains and bad-but goes on a spree with his plot in which curly-headed Kelly falls for a sweet girl, his pal Mac is court-martialed for theft, another pal is taken off to the asylum, Kelly's wife goes to prison for killing another of the fraternity...