Word: bog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games" under the Italian Alps to intimidate the League of Nations when it meets late this month to discuss Sanctions will be officered directly by the military genius who did what most European military experts had called "impossible"-conquered Ethiopia in a single dry season before the rains could bog down his troops...
...close on the heels of Alvin Johnson (TIME, April 20), another economist takes to fiction, offering a case study of a bright young lawyer who chooses political success at the cost of his ideals. Professor France holds his own in following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation...
There are times when the proceedings bog down to a somewhat tiring trot, but in general the situation are amply amusing. Barbara Brown has taken over Miss Gladys George's role and does it up in generous fashion. She coos, whimpers, dramatizes, wiggles, and occasionally slips into a very amusing deep-toned vulgarity of speech. Her language is not sufficiently secure to prevent her from "commuting with her soul," contrasting the interior of the house with the "ulterior," and being quite laughable indeed. George Blackwood plays Bud nicely and the rest of the cast is eminently satisfactory...
...another four hours was the wreck found. Searchers, starting at the Jones farm, found themselves up against as horrid a spot for a crack-up as can be imagined. The woods into which The Southerner had flopped is dense, cut-over timber, growing out of a dank, quaking bog. In some places the gumbo of muck is four feet deep. Natives call it ''Loblolly," wear hip-boots on the rare occasions they enter...
Having got the Premiers of France and Britain bogged in a deal to dismember Ethiopia, Premier Benito Mussolini blithely attempted last week to bog the Pope in a 20,000,000-mark deal on German Peter's Pence...