Word: enigma
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...Enigma...
...hell. In the words of the hero of The Man Who Came to Dinner, "I am about to vomit" every time I read your super-emotionalism, your putrid cliches. . . . I do not consider any money being so wasted as my subscription to your literary and intellectual enigma...
...water-was not pleasant for Britain and her friends to contemplate. The New Order was actually becoming a reality, the Drang nach Osten was dranging. At week's end Bulgaria was maneuvering for its life, Yugoslavia was encircled for all practical purposes, Russia was a not too encouraging enigma, and only Greece and Turkey seemed to have sufficient gumption to resist...
...that twentieth-century Italian music has been the flat vapid stuff it has been, but that doesn't justify his perversity in cluttering up programs with it when there is really great modern music to be played. And John Barbirolli, who has no other axe to grind but the Enigma Variations and an occasional Delius prelude, persists in offering the dryest, most academic manuscripts he can find as samples of modern culture...
...industry's biggest enigma was, as usual, Henry Ford. In 48 years of motor-making, Ford has never sold a six-cylinder car. But newshawks in Detroit last week heard that 400 six-cylinder engines were in the huge River Rouge Plant, guessed the 1941 Ford line would include a six. (Other sixes, especially Chevrolet and Plymouth, have cut into Ford's market, reduced him from first place in 1930 to third in 1940.) Fordmen were mum, but Ward's Automotive Reports said: "Sample [six-cylinder] models are now being turned...