Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When war broke out year ago, the duty of the able-bodied members of Hollywood's British colony received plenty of attention. Some thought they should hurry home to enlist, as did handsome, mustachioed David Niven. Loudest blast of the debate came from London last week, where British Producer Michael Balcon snorted "deserters" at the "scores of producers, directors, writers, artists and technicians who have migrated to Hollywood and Manhattan since Munich." Next day came Hollywood's concrete answer: $6,-000,000 worth of British talent, including such performers as Madeleine Carroll, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Charles Laughton...
...pledged himself to campaign on issues, not personalities. His Democratic opponent has implied that he is going to conduct his political campaign without making any political speeches. Last week, while Franklin Roosevelt was looking the other way, Secretary of the Interior Ickes let fly with an old-fashioned barroom blast at the Republican candidate ("the simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer"- TIME, Aug. 26). Then, while Wendell Willkie kept his eyes strictly front, three hatchet men let fly at Mr. Ickes. Only conclusion that plain citizens could draw was that the lofty level of the 1940 campaign would be restricted...
...This blast upset Fort Worth's Junior Chamber of Commerce. To celebrate the inauguration of a new streamlined train (Texas Zephyr) this week between Dallas, Fort Worth and Denver, the Junior Chambermen had planned an elaborate ceremony with General Motors' famed vice president, Inventor Charles Kettering, as principal speaker. Mr. Budd and his unrelated namesake, Edward G. Budd, streamlined-train maker, were to be on hand too. Last week the ceremony was abruptly called...
Then M. Hamel spoke of the strength, the clarity, the beauty of the French language. The church clock struck twelve and a trumpet blast announced the return of the conquering Prussian troops from drill. M. Hamel could speak no more. He went to the blackboard and wrote in his largest hand: "VIVE LA FRANCE!" The last class was ended...
...flanks of the Pennines lie coal and iron (the min ing regions are shown on the map by tipples) near which the great industrial centres grew - Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Birmingham, Manchester. Around these cities lies "black country," shrouded in smoke, lurid at night with the red belch of blast furnaces, so ugly and acrid that a tough people grew tougher to endure it. Rail roads and narrow motor highways, with varied surfacing, tie the Midlands cities together...