Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alternating Georgina's mental balloon ascensions (murderess on trial for her life, high-minded mother of twins, poison-swallowing streetwalker, emergency Portia triumphing in The Merchant of Venice) with her muddled, mundane romances, Dream Girl shoots at nothing much higher than fun. For the first third of Georgina's day, it shoots pretty wide of the mark, is more forced than funny. But once it gets going, it spins merrily along...
...balloons are kept in the stratosphere by a device which jettisons a sandbag whenever they begin to drop. Blown along by the prevailing easterly wind at some 125 m.p.h., the balloons reach the U.S. in an estimated 80 to 120 hours. When the last sandbag has dropped, Japs calculate, the balloon should have reached its goal. Another automatic gadget then starts it dropping, one by one; its load of incendiary bombs. When the last egg has been laid, a third automatic device (providing it works) permits the Jap balloon, in true Nipponese style, to blow itself...
Blimp's dueling and drinking and wild-game hunting, all in the best radiation of protocol, are brown up consistently enough into a balloon that pops with the realization that old-school formality must be chucked when the other team doesn't follow the same rules, but there is something devilishly out of place in the puzzle...
...took bravery and initiative for Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young to submit to the disfigurement enforced by the adapted Pinero plot. "Enchanted Cottage" is the story of a burst balloon: a manned veteran is thrown into a magic setting with an ugly girl, and in each other they gradually find an escape from the world neither can hear to face. In their enchanted cottage, she appears beautiful, and to her, he is no longer disfigured. The illusion must meet its test when their moral courage comes inevitably into contact with the world of reality...
Franklin Roosevelt established the Presidential press conference as an institution. No other U.S. President had ever been so regularly accessible to newsmen. McKinley on occasion had stepped to the White House door, chatted briefly and uninformatively with reporters. Theodore Roosevelt had used favorite correspondents for "trial balloon" stories and consigned them to "the Ananias Club" if the stories proved embarrassing. Wilson had shut off press conferences after war drew near. Harding, after an ill-fated attempt to be frank, would answer only questions submitted in writing. Coolidge dodged behind the anonymity of the "White House Spokesman" and Hoover ruled that...