Word: boomerangers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitler's New Order was put to the vote in occupied Denmark last week. For reasons best known to themselves, the Germans permitted the Danes to hold parliamentary elections. The result was the biggest vote in Danish history and a smashing rebuke to the Nazi overlords-a boomerang to the Germans, who, also for reasons of their own, had taken care to advertise the elections to the world...
Monty Wooley is funny because he throws rocks at little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Flyman Keplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much more spontaneous any of the slightly forced travelogue series...
Monty Woolley is funny because he throws rocks at little children; Dorothy Parker is funny because she didn't go to Vassar; but Bob Hope is funny because everything he says or does or thinks turns out to be a boomerang, with him at the gag end. In Sam Goldwyn's latest celluloid, Hope has Leonard (Hyman Kaplan) Ross' script to play with, and it turns out to be much spontancous than any of the slightly forced travelogue series...
That even a good Government order can boomerang was all too evident last week: a what-will-come-next buying wave skyrocketed department-store sales to 45% above 1942 in the first week after OPA's shoe-rationing order (TIME, Feb. 15). Despite Government assurances that rationing of other clothing was not in the cards, customers bought up retail clothing stocks as if they were the last they would ever see. The U.S. public had not yet learned that the best way to avoid rationing is to avoid overbuying in the first place...
...President's appointment of Bronx Boss Ed Flynn as Ambassador to Australia had turned out, during his absence, to be the worst political boomerang he had tossed since the Supreme Court fight. It was too late to repair the damage: the President would be busy for months erasing the memory of the mistake...