Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poods (602,000,000 bushels) below estimate. There was the usual 25% loss of grain between reaping and threshing, because the stalks lay in the fields for weeks, because too many combines were broken down. But this year both Dictator Stalin and Premier Molotov had said it could not happen again. It happened...
...prophets were not dopesters and gossips. So many well-informed foreign correspondents were aware of the situation (TIME, Nov. 14, 1938, et seq.) that it looked as if the only people who had not known just what was going to happen were the statesmen of England and France. Soon after Munich, Gilbert Redfern, Warsaw correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, predicted: "Within a year or so we will see a Russian-German tie-up, or Russia will retire to her fastnesses," and the New York Time's Walter Duranty wrote: "There is no reason to believe that Russia would...
...Swatow, the Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of Chinese unenthusiastically shouting anti-British slogans and throwing stones at the British Consulate. Great Britain apologized...
...love with Screwball Carole Lombard. Far from high jinks is the sombre situation of rich young Alec Walker (Mr. Grant) when he falls in love with Julie Eden (Miss Lombard), a widowed commercial artist who has taken a summer cottage near his stately country seat. For, as rarely happens in screwball comedy but is very likely to happen in life, Alec has a tenacious wife with an undeveloped sense of humor, parents who also thought infidelity no joke. Before Lovers Grant and Lombard fight through to the clear, they have traded more punches than puns, emerged with the realization that...
Hyde Park. Blurb of the week was written by Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt in her syndicated column, My Day. Blurbled she: "I read a book last night until 2:30 a. m. That doesn't happen very often to me. . . ." Sleep-murdering novel: Again the River (still in galley proofs), a story of floods and the people who fight them or get drowned in them. Author: Stella E. Morgan, a West Virginia housewife. Again the River is her first novel...