Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a score of similar Southern novels, the book is a story of racial conflict in a small Southern town (called Maxwell, Ga.), in which the dramatic action is the love affair of a white man and a Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have...
...love affair of the Curies is of such a quality as to call forth the best in acting, particularly in the male lead, and this best is given by Walter Pidgeon...
...Congressman, mindful of the $891,000 in salaries that Bill Jack, his family and Partner Ralph M. Heintz have collected in two years, was less enthusiastic. Mused Wyoming's Senator Joe O'Mahoney: "It seems to be rather interesting that they have money enough to stage an affair of this type...
...Davis- Crime Club ($2). The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb. Four murders and two natural deaths, all linked in the same grisly puzzle, make it a real busman's honeymoon. A shrewdly plotted and super-shivery affair, with logical detecting and a leaven of dese-dose-&-dem humor...
...Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with them. Hearst papers gave the affair pages of pleased attention...