Word: amazonian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peru's Amazonian fields may be even richer than million-barrel-a-day Venezuela...
Sexy Females. Wonder Woman is written by "Charles Moulton," who is really a psychologist named William Moulton Marston, famed as inventor of the "lie detector." Harvardman Marston (A.B., LL.B., Ph.D.) has a theory that in the next hundred years the U.S. will drift toward an Amazonian matriarchy. He invented Wonder Woman to educate his fellow men to their fate. Says he: "Men actually submit to women now, they do it on the sly with a sheepish grin because they're ashamed of being ruled by weaklings. Give them an alluring woman stronger than themselves to submit to and they...
...gesture brought her enhanced prestige, a significant indication of the leading role Brazil was gradually taking from her greatest rival, Argentina. Already Brazil has economic agreements with Uruguay and Paraguay, is heading toward another with Peru. Ultimate goal of the new Brazilian policy may be the welding of the Amazonian bloc: Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru and the Guianas. If this succeeds, Argentina, already out of step politically in South America, may find that Brazil has assumed economic leadership of the continent...
Many a U.S. newsman, many a U.S. newspaper joined the outcry: said Amazonian Pundit Dorothy Thompson: "To say [that such censorship is necessary] is tantamount to claiming that the most profound issues of this war may not be publicly discussed, or if publicly discussed, must be confined within the United States." Said Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney: Reasonable censorship of war news to prevent the enemy from receiving advantage is acceptable to everyone. Censorship of opinion is sabotage of the Four Freedoms...
...Bolger, with his unsurpassed clowning and comedy dancing, sets the pace for the show, as the original pansy, Sapiens. Take his rendition of a naughty balled entitled "Life With Father," for instance, or his slapstick technique with Benay Venuta, the properly Amazonian Hippolyta, in "Ev'rything I've Got Belongs To You." Constance Moore, recruited from the flickers, is a pretty dish as the strong and tasty Antiope. She doesn't know what to do with her hands yet, but her songs are well delivered and she has a nice comic sense...