Word: frothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...layer of the molten rock cools and hardens, sealing the volcano temporarily. The cap can contain the pressure for a time-depending on the peculiarities of the individual volcano-when it cracks open again with a rush of burning gas. Molten magma boils up, whipped to a froth by the gases. After the pressure has been relieved, the eruption subsides, the cap forms again and the cycle of eruption is complete...
Hope for the Best (by William Mc-Cleery; produced by Jean Dalrymple & Marc Connelly) casts Franchot Tone -absent from Broadway since 1940 - as a famous columnist. He has 11,000,000 readers lapping up his harmless froth, but what he yearns after is to feed them politics and liberalize their thinking. Scared out of trying by his highbrow, reactionary fiancée, he finally borrows enough gumption from a sympathetic young girl (Jane Wyatt)- incidentally swapping fiancées while crossing his Rubicon...
...cast in the same mold: The Great Gildersleeve, Andy Hardy, Laurel and Hardy, Crime Doctor, Doctor Gillespie, Fibber McGeo and Molly. People find these entertaining, just as they like familiar Tchaikowsky and spurn Shostakovich, but no further contribution to a stagnating film-art can come from such mechanically-whipped froth. To use the vernacular, when you've seen one, you've seen...
...George Bernard Shaw characterized World War II as "a mere Bubble in the froth of history," scorned the notion that a trial of Adolf Hitler would prevent future wars, predicted that the Führer would probably end up in a vice-regal lodge in Dublin. As for women being able to do anything about keeping the peace, Shaw snorted: "Men are pugnacious and women are very, pugnacious...
...Maxence and Antoinette d'Entre mont were typical bright bubbles in the froth of prewar French life just before it went over...