Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then she remarried the count. Shortly afterward he, too, was found dead, stabbed in the back with 19 knife thrusts. Investigation failed to involve Marga (though two French officers who had cast doubt on her testimony charged that she later tried to run over them in her car). Just before the outbreak of World War II, Marga turned up in a French villa close to the Spanish border. Newspapers hinted that she was trafficking with the Nazis. But after the Nazi occupation, Marga went to North Africa. There rumors connected her with British and French secret operations...
...were already cutting production, but heavy industries (autos, houses, etc.), which give the U.S. its economic red meat, had hardly begun to satisfy demand. The fact was that no one could say, with certainty, just how long or deep the recession would be. But a balance sheet could be cast up of what could make it comparatively slight, or comparatively deep...
...Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell is a city much like London...
...mark in its production. Missed cues and German accents heavy to the point of double talk give the play a certain ineptitude that has alienated critics and audiences alike, but does not detract from the great moral issues portrayed. Despite the lack of technique on the part of the cast, "Temper the Wind" brings the significant problems of today to the American stage for the first time since the end of the war. The authors have something important to say, something that greatly concerns Americans and deserves their attention beyond a nearly empty house. If a play dealing with...
...movie is a smooth, stagy, offhand treatment of a worrisome subject. Mentally, June is plainly a very sick girl-if not definitely off her trolley. Yet everyone in the cast treats her as if she were merely indulging a fit of the sulks. Old Dr. Lionel Barrymore, a psychiatrist this time, is called in briefly for a diagnosis, but he is not really turned loose on June's case. She is allowed to run around with her dangerous father-fixation-messing up Miss Colbert's love life and attempting suicide-until she catches a young...