Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German press, which has been carrying on a vitriolic campaign against Czechoslovakia to aid the Sudeten Germans, splashed the Cheb slayings in blood-red headlines. BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO GERMANS BY CZECHS, screamed Der Angriff, newssheet of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels PRAGUE'S APPALLING BLOOD GUILT...
...thoughtful story, by Lieut. Commander Frank Wead (Ceiling Zero, China Clipper), conceives two sodden-nerved men, one a swaggering, hard-living and egotistic pilot (Clark Gable), the other his patient, understanding mechanic (Spencer Tracy). On the fear-tortured mind of the flyer's wife (Myrna Loy) their almost brutal fatalism rasps like a file. Credit for blending this grounded mental conflict with the melodrama of wings in the air, screaming struts and whining motors goes to Director Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous). Not the least of his accomplishments was to exact performances that verge on reality from pert, actressy Myrna...
...Women's" modernity lies in its all-feminine cast and the unexpected frankness of their conversation. But few will find this particularly shocking, and the only jarring note is a brutal cynicism which creeps into the second act. Lois Wilson, as Mrs. Haines, heads an excellent cast which accelerates as the play goes on and finishes in a burst of contagious cuthusiasm...
...London in 1907, at the age of 33, William Somerset Maugham became a success. Four of his plays were produced, and three of them ran for a year. He has remained successful ever since. "In my twenties," he says, "the critics said I was brutal, in my thirties they said I was flippant, in my forties they said I was cynical, in my fifties they said I was competent and now in my sixties they say I am superficial." Last week, in The Summing Up, Author Maugham gave readers passing reasons for agreeing with the critics of each decade...
Association or federal union of Austria with Germany on "equal" terms had been the dream of most Austrians since the War, and for this Kurt von Schuschnigg had worked until as a Christian he became convinced that the Nazis at root are brutal pagans whose object is subjugation of Christian Austria. In speaking of Germans apart from Nazis, Christian Kurt von Schuschnigg up to a few weeks ago was still repeating, "We are good Germans, but always true Austrians!"-for the average Austrian thinks of himself as "German" in blood and soul...