Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raid shelter available for Elizabeth Arden clients. . . . Rest is no longer assured but -[modern woman] must guard against tired nerves which bring new lines to her face...
...first prize-fighter picture whose hero fails to win the championship, but it is the first to portray a fighter as a pitiable neurotic. Joe Bonaparte (William Holden) has a beautiful pair of hands, which he can use to equal effect playing the violin or smashing a face. The violin seems likely to win out with thoughtful Joe until Manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou), threatened with the loss of a promising meal ticket, gets his girl, Lorna Moon (Barbara Stanwyck), to stiffen Joe's spine. In Clifford Odets' play, Joe never got much out of his fighting hands...
...only correspondents in Great Britain were complaining of the war's coverage. In the House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had to face a barrage of questions from honorable members who were worried by the scarcity of news. Mr. Chamberlain promised that he would "try to deal with the matter." London's own newspapers, galled by the censorship yoke, were loudly critical. The London Times blamed the Ministry for "a series of muddles and blunders" which, said the Times, the Prime Minister did not deny. Said the News Chronicle: "News is flooding out of Berlin into...
...other threat was peace. If peace comes unexpectedly, before enormous export orders bail out those who last week speculated on that huge business, U. S. industry might face a 1921-type collapse. The Securities and Exchange Commission kept a weather eye out for a peace scare that might shake the public out of the market, precipitate a crash severe enough to compel it to close markets; or the New York Stock Exchange to fix maximum daily price changes...
...Secretary of the Communist Party, Stalin constructed under him a bureaucracy of secretaries, "a hierarchy of secretaries, a psychology of secretaries." For that and for the ruthless use of the secret police his talents sufficed, says Souvarine, for the wise reconstruction and administration of Russia they were pitiful in face of the task with which Lenin himself could scarcely cope. The implacability of a good bomb thrower (TIME, Sept. 4) showed itself inappropriate, to say the least, when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually...