Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...STATES!" Tired Mr. Turrou was going to turn out enough articles to run "for several weeks." Said he in Publisher Stern's advertisement: "I Can Tell You That a confidential conference between President Roosevelt and a foremost naval designer, held secretly in the White House, was known in detail in Nazi spy headquarters in Germany within a few hours! "I Can Tell You That the Nazi Government spent huge sums to further their espionage in this country. . . ." U. S. Attorney Lamar Hardy, in charge of the spy prosecutions in Manhattan, feared that the articles might help his quarry defend...
...does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears to be trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose story of Gilberte Brigard, nicknamed "Frou Frou." Pretty, light-headed little Frou Frou makes the mistake of marrying a serious young lawyer, George Sartoris (Melvyn Douglas), with whom her sister (Barbara O'Neil) is in love. When, dissatisfied with...
...people will always read: divorces-especially of prominent persons. Last week in Waukegan, Ill. a prominent U. S. couple were divorced. Mrs. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, married 1902, separated 1928, divorced her husband, Daily News Publisher Patterson. It was a good story. In the Daily News it appeared in full detail on page two (actually the first news page since the front page is given to pictures...
TIME, May 23, however, your reviewer slipped up on one small but important detail in his article on the large Exhibition of American Art 1609-1938 which the Museum of Modern Art assembled at the request of the French Government for a summer showing in the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris. After outlining and analyzing with swift clarity the scope of the exhibition, your reviewer states in the caption under your color reproduction of Henry Varnum Poor's Boy with Bow that the artist is not represented in the Paris show...
...really important entries in Homer's journal, recurring about once a week, are his dreams of his old sweetheart Fran. These dreams start soon after he runs away from Buffalo, jealous because she talked to another boy. Homer believes his visions are mystic bulletins telling in exact detail what happens to her; he is, of course, 100% wrong. When, in one of them, Fran's clothesline breaks, Homer writes severely: "I should think Clark [her dream husband] could at least put up a wire clothesline...