Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only grave, good-looking, lyrical Ingrid Bergman wrings credit from the tortured script. Her portrayal of the unfortunate barmaid who charms Jekyll only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...
Months ago, Planner Franklin Roosevelt faced a group of men in the White House and in grave mood told them what they thoroughly agreed with: that the present transition of the U.S. to a wartime basis would be only a twitch in the national economy compared to the transition to come at war's end-back to a peacetime economy. He had an assignment: outline a plan for action by which the U.S. could return to peace without convulsions of depression and unemployment...
...Frenchmen!" he exclaimed, "I have grave things to tell you! For the last several weeks I have felt an ill wind rising in many regions of France. Disquiet is overtaking minds, doubt is gaining control of spirits. The authority of my Government is made the subject of discussion; orders are often being ill-executed. In an atmosphere of false rumors and intrigues the forces of reconstruction are growing discouraged. . . . The national revolution . . . has not yet forced its way through because between the people and me . . . there has risen a double screen of those favoring the old regime and those serving...
Unknown Gentleman. This week Cordell Hull returned to Washington to resume his duties. He had been absent, in ill health, six weeks. But his return should not change matters greatly. Grave, saintly Mr. Hull, never an expert at paper-shuffling, has long left the actual administration of the Department to his chief aide, Sumner Welles. And Cordell Hull may choose not to retire. But even if Welles never becomes Secretary, he will still hold his present power: through Presidential choice, his own ability, background and natural stamina, he is the chief administrative officer of U.S. foreign policy...
...Gaulle was a corporal. He was dead. He had been dead for five years. In his grave he heard that a German corporal had taken Paris. He leaped from his grave shouting: "I am a general now and I'll show you something...