Word: conning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can gravely affect a man's deportment. Conkee is prim & proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema...
Simon returned to Cochabamba in 1924 to build some palaces and settle down. Promptly blackballed by the cholo-con-temning local gentry, he closed the palaces, went to Europe, has not visited Bolivia since. In time he sold a 10% interest in his mines to National Lead Co., and diversified his own stake. He now owns mines in Malay (No. 1 tin-ore producer), a huge smelter near Liverpool. He likes to think he also still controls large smelters in Germany. He let France go on his cuff, and calls Mussolini "Mi Musso...
There was little talk, pro or con, about help for the Allies. There weren't Allies any more, there was only Britain, and Congressmen gradually awoke to the fact that to intervene or not to intervene? was not a realistic question. They began to have a feeling in the pits of their stomachs that by the time the U. S. was called upon to fight, there weren't likely to be any Allies for it to fight beside. Passed by both houses was a resolution denying the right of any European state to transfer its territory...
Ministry he chose General Charles de Gaulle, 50, a lanky, pale, mustached mili tary innovator who for 20 years has pounded home one point in theses, con ferences, articles, reports: if France was to meet Germany on equal terms she must have the motors of offense -tanks, trucks, motorcycles, airplanes. Charles de Gaulle had not long graduated from elite St.-Cyr when he matriculated into a tougher school -World War I. He served actively in Poland in 1920, inactively as a post war staff officer under Petain, then in Syria, then in Paris. Only three years ago he became...
Said Adolf Hitler's Boston envoy, over the signature of Kurt Bohme: "This Con sulate has read the editorial . . in which the head of a nation, with whom the United States of America entertains dip lomatic relations, is insulted in such un civilized expressions, that this Consulate in the future must refuse to give your paper any information in whatever matter...