Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announced in his recent Reichstag speech. It was also consistent with mutual Soviet-German declarations that Hitlerism is for the Germans and Bolshevism for the Slavs, but that the two do not necessarily mix. But the unseemly haste with which the evacuation began suggested that here was a complicating detail of his new policy which the Führer had overlooked until the last minute, and that, far from being planned, the transfer was the result of pure immediate necessity. Germany has long considered the Baltic a "German lake." Friendship with Joseph Stalin evidently comes high...
Mabel Thorp Boardman had come back from Berlin, where her uncle was U. S. Minister. Unmarried, she was no longer a Victorian young lady but a Victorian spinster. The Red Cross job was just what she wanted. Imaginative, energetic, with a passion for detail, she got to work with a will. Fifteen years later she was national secretary, has kept the job ever since...
Delegates left this enormous detail to be settled in good time, embarked at once on a round of cocktail parties, formal dinners, golf-matches, swimming (behind the shark net at Fort Amur's beach). But in between festivities they labored hard on this intensification of the Monroe Doctrine, this deliberate abandonment of the freedom of the seas. At Sumner Welles's announcement of definite financial aid, proving the solidity of U. S. intentions, Latin-American diplomats leaped. Shortly...
...days of last spring, Captain Liddell Hart was at work on a big new volume: The Defence of Britain.* Events moved so fast that he had to finish it at a sprint, a misfortune from which the finished book suffers. Its last 190 pages are too full of military detail to interest most civilians, but its first 243 pages are meaty, revealing...
...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...