Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Probably not," was his answer to a query regarding the possibility of a European war in the near future, but he likened himself to Lord Castleross, 280-pound English columnist, who asserted, 'I'm only a poor columnist but I'm the only one who doesn't know exactly what's going on in the minds of Hitler and Mussolini...
Historian Frank G. Menke is centuries out of the way when he claims (TIME, Feb. 27, p. 28) that "the U. S. game of craps was named after a French rake, Count Bernard Mandeville Marigny, who introduced the parent European game of hazard to New Orleans a century ago. He was so disliked by the natives that he was nicknamed 'Johnny Crapaud' (French for toad). The pastime became known as 'Crapaud's Game,' then 'Crap's Game,' finally . . . craps...
Reasons for the British ooze of optimism were not hard to find. First, Britain will probably have a General Election this year. Business usually improves when governments talk peace. The European atmosphere, moreover, has been so full of dire warnings to totalitarian powers lately that many a British voter might easily have forgotten that the Prime Minister won his international fame as the Great Appeaser...
Concerned with nothing more than the romantic meeting and somewhat prolonged courtship of a European fortune hunter (Charles Boyer) and a Kansas-bred nightclub singer (Irene Dunne), it frequently falters in pace. It also includes a few sequences which, reminiscent of Director McCarey's work for Hal Roach, are among the most adroit cinematic touches of the year. Good shot: Irene Dunne, prevented from getting married to Boyer when a car cripples her legs, waking up to fave the consequences in a hospital...
Developing 500 horsepower, the Ranger is the lightest powerplant of its size in the world (1.28 pounds per h.p.), weighs some 200 pounds less than European engines of the same design and power, has no counterpart in U. S. design. Jubilant Ranger engineers declared its principles were adaptable to bigger engines, refused to confirm a current report: that at its modest (100 employes) plant at Farmingdale, L. I., Ranger is already working on a new powerplant of more than 1,000 horsepower to compete with Allison...