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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Cat (Universal), "suggested" by Edgar Allan Poe's famed story of a murderer's retribution, takes place in a sleek modernistic house built by a demented Austrian (Boris Karloff) on the remains of a World War fortress. A bus accident one stormy night sends into this evil abode a U. S. detective story writer, his bride, and a jittery psychiatrist (Bela Lugosi) who suspects that years ago Karloff stole his wife and daughter. Lugosi's suspicions are confirmed when Karloff shows him his waxy-looking spouse among a collection of prettily embalmed women in the cellar...
...statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat crop at $7.80 per bu.; 2) built 1,000,000 small homes; 3) bought more automobiles than were produced in the last two years; 4) employed 10,000,000 people ten weeks at $40 per week; 5) paid any government deficit of the last three years or 91% of the deficit estimated for the current year...
...drab sweater behind a window with a service flag when the telegram comes from the War Department. . . . Back under the old pergola from which they started so hopefully 32 years before, childless, grey-haired Eve and Chet still have plans. The house they were going to build will be built for their nephew. They are unaware that the nephew is about to leave for New York to seek his fortune. There are other things of which they are unaware. "This country is sound and sane" says Chet, contentedly thinking about his $10,000 in the bank...
...Malacanan Palace was built in the 18th Century as the country house of a Spanish grandee, became a "provisional palace'' in 1863 when a Spanish Governor moved...
Sample of Author Muggeridge's distaste for Russia: "Jerry-built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...