Word: addicting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Device for Nominating a Candidate for High Office places a "fresh air fiend" next door to the candidate. When the windows are opened, the fresh air addict's pet owl catches cold and sneezes into a toy bugle which summons a company of National Guardsmen who think War is declared and, in their haste, upset a milkman and break his bottles, spilling milk which attracts hundreds of cats, whose howling wakes up the neighbors, whose own angry yells and howls the candidate mistakes for the voices of his constituents calling on him to save the country. The candidate thereupon...
...headed for that economic disaster which, by the wily stratagems of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the Fatherland has barely avoided so many times, it will be just as well for the blame to burst not upon Herr Hitler but upon Herr Göring, who has been a morphine addict, drinks Gargantuanly and is popular in a bluff, hearty fashion-the sort of man to whom Germans forgive mistakes. Minister-President Göring received last week the following send-off from Der Volkischer Beobachter, the personally-owned newsorgan of Chancellor Adolf Hitler to which all Nazi Party members are obliged...
...moral indifference no more than self-deception. While Helen, after leaving Anthony and her husband, falls in love with a German refugee, becomes a Communist, Anthony travels to Mexico, meets a Quaker philosopher who teaches him nonresistance. Mary Amberley develops from a complete immoralist to a narcotic addict, while most of the pleasure-seekers and boredom-avoiders go to pieces in unesthetic ways. Anthony turns into a preacher of positive pacifism, accepts William Penn's credo: "Force may subdue, but Love gains." His lectures on peace arouse the hatred of patriots, who threaten him. Always timid, he finds that...
...TIME MURDERS-Charles G. Givens -Bobbs-Merrill ($2). Racy dialog, seething atmosphere, sound plot combine to make palatable to the mystery-addict a chronicle of three kinds of slaughter on a flooded Tennessee estate...
...Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation, liberally peppered with dots and dashes, this unconventional murder tale is likely to antagonize the mystery-addict, despite the compelling, almost hypnotic quality of the characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL- Sartell Prentice-Morrow ($3.50). Offering the layman a rich interpretation of church architecture through the ages, this work should provide absorbing reading for conscientious tourists, many a pleasant hour for those who stay...