Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...roaring melodrama and yet succeeds where hundreds have failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd of thundering cavalrymen and how to develop the character of a good man turned bad, and a touch of building-the-old-West spirit all rolled into one. If Hollywood can keep turning American history into such thrillers, it had better put the Schlesingers and Bucks on its payroll...
...drawback of the airplane for private use is that it must have broad, obstacle-free fields for take-offs and landings. To compete with the automobile, air transport needs a machine that takes off straight up, lands straight down, remains under control at any speed or no speed. Beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, air designers have tinkered with vertical-lift machines. They wound up definitely nowhere until famed German Designer Heinrich Focke built a practical helicopter that is said to be working with German troops...
When Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to Washington, heard reports that his countrymen were angry with his Queen for fleeing to Britain, he indignantly ejaculated: ''The fate of the former Chancellor of Austria gives an idea of what might have befallen Queen Wilhelmina. Of what use is Dr. Schuschnigg to Austria...
...part of his larger attack on the "Benedict Arnolds." The latter phrase refers, in his letter, to "the unpaid efforts of thousands of Americans to conduct pro-Ally propaganda." In effect, anyone who supports a policy of aid to the Allies in the present juncture is a traitor. The use of this epithet invites attention to Dr. Zipf's remarks on "emotional involvement...
...basis of rational and critical analysis of our emotional position. But a great deal of current discussion assumes that "emotional involvement" is confined to a pro-Ally position. It is not true that the other position may represent "emotional involvement"? I offer in evidence Dr. Zipf's letter, using phrases such as "Benedict Arnolds," "despicable type of disloyalty," "educated fool," "copperheads," "hypocritical agitation under cover of the academic gown" (cf. the full text of his letter in the "Herald"). The unreflective emotional content of a verbal communication is often directly proportional to the number of such phrases and adjectives...