Word: abruptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First New Deal act to provoke widespread U. S. criticism was the abrupt cancellation by President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley in 1934 of every U. S. airmail contract because of alleged collusion. For two months the Army flew the mails, at a cost of 13 lives (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934 et seq.). When this fiasco forced the Government to back down, return the airmail to the commercial lines after ousting nearly 20 top men in the industry, all the airlines involved brought suits totaling some $15,000,000 against the Post Office Department. Last week the Government settled...
...color replaces black & white photography, the change will be less abrupt than that from silent pictures to sound, partly because color requires no new exhibiting apparatus. Nonetheless, the swing to color, barely perceptible last year, will be highly noticeable in 1936-37. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and Dancing Pirate were last season's only colored features. Next season United Artists will make six, Twentieth Century-Fox two, Paramount two, Warner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Amkino one each...
...This abrupt shift, characteristic of Il Duce, meant that the 800,000 troops he is mobilizing in "war games" under the Italian Alps to intimidate the League of Nations when it meets late this month to discuss Sanctions will be officered directly by the military genius who did what most European military experts had called "impossible"-conquered Ethiopia in a single dry season before the rains could bog down his troops...
...Thereafter the tension grew grimmer. The beggars danced madly while Leah swept in to whirl despairingly with a groveling hunchback, a hideous, pawing old crone. Rocca's orchestra reached a frenzied climax as Leah faced her bridegroom, suddenly screamed like one gone mad. Just as abrupt was the hush when the verdict was passed. "A dybbuk has her ... a dybbuk, a dybbuk. . . ." Curtain went down with every instrument in the orchestra simulating the horror of that dread word...
...fashion, but the effect usually falls short of amusing. A soapy soap heiress (Bette) falls in love with a surly reporter (George Brent). She proposes to him in an up-side-down machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number one. The next is a business marriage in which the wedded couple don't mean business. Then there are those awful namby-pamby European counts, who are always such a trial to people...