Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this was only the profile of the plot. Washington buzzed with blacker hints. The New York Sun said right out loud that the Dies Committee's counsel, ex-G-Man Rhea Whitley, knew about the letters in December, even knew about the plan to air them on the floor of the House. Mayne himself had told him, charged the Sun, and Mayne had also reported to the Dies Committee his negotiations with Jackson. Why had not Mr. Whitley spoken up? Said Congressman Marcantonio of New York: "If this statement is true, then the counsel of this committee engaged...
...country reacted, as always under pressure, with threats and recriminations. Commander Masaharu Homma of the Tientsin Garrison, an old hand at talking out of turn, warned that the Japanese Army might have to "reconsider appropriate steps." Japan's Army spokesman told a fantastic cock-&-buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to wreck the "New Order in East Asia...
...Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check) & Co. As the plot has as many complications as characters, much of the fun comes in watching Scripter Samson Raphaelson neatly tangle and untangle them without tying himself in a hard knot...
...Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy newswriters, a maladjusted comedian. If uneven...
...lovely couple, the Norths, who plot mild whoopee in a vacant apartment upstairs in Greenwich Village, find a corpse in the bathtub, but have their party anyway. Mrs. North and Lieutenant Weigand together spot the guilty...