Word: plot
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...statement of the Ambassadors of England, Spain, Germany and Brazil and by the American colony in Mexico City, that Ambassador Wilson did everything possible to insure the safety of Madero, and that his arrangement of a special train to take Madero out of the country was foiled by a plot by Madero partisans to rescue him from the train. Friends of the writer were with Ambassador Wilson when he received the news of the death of Madero and have testified to his surprise and indignation...
...days of Technocracy, a retired Scottish engineer named Major Clifton Hugh Douglas, having long sensed a bankers' plot to keep buying power out of motion, brought his Social Credit movement to North America. Its theory-that the State should credit "National Dividends" to its citizens to increase their buying power-was intriguing enough to carry Alberta's provincial election in 1935. Fortnight ago in Buffalo, N. Y., a practical reformer launched a version of Social Credit that would have sent Major Douglas staggering to a neutral corner...
This is, concisely, the plot of "Third Finger, Left Hand," involving Myrna Loy, Mclvyn Douglas, and plenty of healthy nonsense. Myrna and Mclvyn make ideal partners, outsmarting and nonplussing each other in that sadistic spirit that unravels itself into love. Altogether it's clean fun, though less so than "I Love You Again," whatever the ads say. And Myrna still shines at flippancy, but it gets progressively harder to love her again...
...Letter (Warner) is almost actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules...
Dumbarton Oaks stands just across Rock Creek from the nation's capital. The house was built about 1800 and was long the home of John C. Calhoun of North Carolina, as Senator, Secretary of War, and Vice-President. A plot of land was deeded with the mansion, but the largest part of the property surrounding the house has been presented to the District of Columbia as a public park...