Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everybody off Cape Cod, it could be repopulated overnight by the fictional offspring of Joseph Crosby Lincoln. Last week Author Lincoln, collaborating with his nonfictional offspring Freeman, proved that not even a hurricane can stop him from writing about Cape Cod, used the big blow of 1938 merely as curtain raiser for The Ownley Inn. Before the final curtain, when the stolen New England Primer (value: $60,000) is recovered, and broken-nosed Puss Clarke makes up with his ex-fiancée, a full cast of summer folk and Down East worthies have sauntered across the stage...
That is all. With Vanillan cheers and happy song echoing in his ears, Charlie wakes up back in concentration camp, a stormtrooper glowering down at him. Charlie smiles and the stormtrooper starts to smile back. Then his lips freeze and he bellows Charlie Chaplin's curtain line: "Get up, Jew! Where the hell do you think...
...turned down the offer. Last fall, before a Congressional committee investigating TVA, daring Wendell Willkie offered to sell at any price SEC would set. The offer was not accepted but negotiations were quietly resumed between C. & S. and Lilienthal. Last week's announcement by Dave Lilienthal drew the curtain, perhaps permanently, on out-loud haggling over power...
Power Politics. Before the curtain still stands Willkie. All his maneuvers did not save the Tennessee Valley for Commonwealth & Southern (whose remaining operating companies still represent more than a billion dollars in assets). But he did something else. He took the case of the utilities to the public. He articulated the argument against public ownership, generating power regardless of cost, and the argument for private ownership, under regulation, selling power at low rates and making a decent profit on its capital invested...
Shanghai '37 is Novelist Baum's usual chile con carne ("her eyes went on a pleasure cruise up and down him"), seasoned with local color, a but-life-goes-on philosophy. Curtain sentence: "What must happen, happens." Thanks to Japanese bombs that fell on the Shanghai Hotel when war came, Author Baum's ending has more finality than usual...