Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Provided." In Berlin, the Foreign Office persistently pooh-poohed the idea of an invasion of either country. When, however, Nazi diplomats were asked point-blank to reaffirm Germany's respect for Belgian and The Netherlands neutrality, they simply pointed to previous declarations, in which Germany had agreed to respect Belgian and Dutch neutrality provided the other side also respected it. That did not necessarily mean a great deal...
...Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart's shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a darkly ominous commentator who punctuates a morality play about the somewhat dated evils of rum-running, bootlegging, highjacking, speakeasies and Prohibition with warnings that after all, they may happen again...
...that it is laughing at itself and having a delightful time all the while. A fresh and often amusing plot jogs in and out and around a score of singing and dancing sequences formidably staged by Vincente Minnelli, reaching a high when Hiram Sherman narrates in something akin to blank verse "The Strange Case of Adam Standish" and a "Ballet Peculiare" in fantastic costumes acts out his words with fantastic action...
...Winnie Ruth Judd was blonde, slim, shapely, 26. That was the day she killed her friends. Many times in the next 15 months, passionate Mrs. Judd earned in full her newspaper nickname "The Blonde Tigress." She dropped her hysteria, her fits of blank staring, only when an impressionable jury had saved her from a scaffold-drop by judging her insane...
...young English writer, Wystan Hugh Auden, incorporated these lines in the chorus of a play. Auden's poems were at that time widely talked about and widely misunderstood-with some reason. They seemed brilliant, veiled, obscurely revolutionary. By October 1939, however, few Englishmen could still look blank over such lines as these. Their meaning was all too painfully clear...