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Toyland's atomic age is booming; chemistry sets contain samples of uranium ore, guaranteed to be all but inert, and incapable of making Junior radioactive. An atom gun with a hidden battery flashes and buzzes, and a "rocket" car is driven along on compressed...
...talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
Some museumgoers wished that Benton had done his drinking before starting to paint. To them, his portrait looked as inert and uninspired as a coil of rope. But the conservative officials of Boston's museum seemed to feel that Benton had captured a vanishing type on canvas. And for once, Tom Benton, who used to complain that an art museum was a graveyard "run by a pretty boy with delicate wrists and a swing in his gait," agreed with the officials. His friend Hough, said Benton, "is a good old New England editor...
...above), is a comedy about songwriters trying to get ahead. But Hit Parade, by telling its story simply and with humor, and giving a reasonable facsimile of how entertainment people look and feel, is fairly pleasant. Love and Learn by telling its story with tinny wit, and shoving its inert characters through tortuous farcical situations, is rather a bore...
...Wider membership" and better organization to meet aggression" are advantages of the U. N. over the League of Nations, the British diplomat stated, and he viewed "disagreements" among the Big Five as putting us on the "alert," as opposed to the "inert" attitude which he considered characteristic...