Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is one necessary detail which must have been overlooked by Dr. Inman when he treated the eight-year-old boy unsuccessfully: saliva must be applied before brushing the teeth, and before eating anything. As my informant, an ancient German barber, told me: "Schpittle iss purrzon...
...months they would be and during those months could have prepared the kind of "educational" performance the Russians stage when they are in a minority. The Danubian countries, which are being sucked dry by the one-way trade treaties with Russia, might have been told eloquently and in detail that a Red-dominated Danube meant more poverty for them. They could also have been told convincingly that the U.S. wanted a Danube open to all nations which would mean more trade and fewer restrictions for the Danube nations...
...been strangled by her former fiancé, who drove around for hours with her body in his car while he was getting up the nerve to shoot himself. Half an hour after Hearst's News-Post went to press, the man changed his story in one important detail: he had actually killed the girl while they were inside the Baltimore city limits. That brought the murder case within the range of the state courts in Baltimore, and a powerful thumb on the press, called Rule...
...Brooklyn pier one morning last fortnight, a detail of U.S. customs officers quietly moved in on a pile of 600 neat, wooden crates. Customs Inspector Jacob Ehrlich pried into one of the crates with a crowbar. Cried he: "Just as I thought!" His companions pressed closer, saw a gleaming white water closet. They seized the entire $10,500 shipment...
...angles on great old subjects by no means necessarily improve a movie. Still, it would have been interesting to know, in a little more detail, just why these Southerners felt so contrary; what their neighbors thought of them (and vice versa); what their relations were with the Yankees ; and how they managed to survive as long as they did. However, all such questions are swamped in slick-fiction formula. A fiery redhead (Susan Hayward) gets crippled for no good reason and for no good reason gets fixed up again. Her fiance, the swine mentioned above, runs off with her sister...