Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making love to no less than two scantily clad Polynesians. This time technicolor adds its bit and helps to make the movie better than the rest of Dottie's gone-native series. Other factors that raise this above the ordinary are: a better than average story of tropic love, hate, and retribution; a good cast of supporting actors, especially Lynne Overman; and a very realistic sequence of the eruption of a volcano, fully as terrifying as the eruption in Fantasia's "Rites of Spring...
Familiar indeed to readers of Somerset Maugham was the story's plot, a simple, violent tale of British mannerliness upset by tropic passions. Last December 57-year-old Sir Jock married young Diana Caldwell in London, brought her out to his Kenya estate. At the smart Muthaiga Country Club she had met the dashing earl, fallen violently and very publicly in love with him less than a month after her marriage. Sir Jock had tried to persuade her to go with him to Ceylon to forget the earl. When she refused he even offered to go away himself. Then...
...Germany, the Work of the Twentieth Century) to prove that as early as 1911 Germany planned by 1950 to expand out of Europe and control the strategic points of the world, on land and sea, in Africa, Asia and the Americas, including all of South America south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The steps...
...sunny harbor of Papeete, Tahiti, General Brunot appeared on deck in the blue uniform of France. An antiquated French airplane droned over the ship and dipped its wings. At the dock Joan Fontaine saw General Brunot received by two khaki-clad companies of native troops. A band broke the tropic stillness with the Marseillaise and Joan Fontaine, thinking of the France that was, could not help crying...
...advocates of hemisphere solidarity who fear that the phrase may remain only a phrase. Mistrust of U.S. intentions, plus mistrust of U.S. ability to take effective military action in the far south, had hitherto hampered U.S. efforts to get military cooperation from those countries which lie south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Last fortnight Argentina's Foreign Minister Emeritus, Carlos Saavedra Lamas, urged a conference of Foreign Ministers of the 21 American republics to agree on plans for common defense (TIME, June 16). Last week such a conference seemed hardly an immediate necessity, so well had diplomacy worked behind...