Word: monologize
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Thus the "clutch" story of an impetuous bridegroom (Would You Marry a College Girl? Yes.) is prefaced with a little monolog about waiting for the delivery of a new automobile. The "differential" story of another young couple (Would You Marry A College Man? No.) begins with factory instructions on breaking in a new car, a theme whose smutty possibilities are as obvious as they are outworn. Some times Weller grinds his gears pretty badly in shifting from one tale to the next; sometimes the transitions are lightly made...
...BEACHCOMBER?William McFee? Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Monolog by long-winded Chief Engineer Spenlove on the undistinguished career of Sidney Nevile, his professional and emotional difficulties...
...they had any news for him. When the consequent titter died down, a voice asked if he had reached any conclusions about NRA. He had and for the next hour he proceeded to give them to the Press, not as a straight quotable interview, but as an indirect monolog addressed to the nation at large. Though, by this technical device, the President was relieved of black-&-white accountability for all he said, the 200 newshawks were able to reconstruct from their notes an historic political speech. Its exact words might be missing but from the front page of every newspaper...
...Germany, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. *After news of how Hitler out-talked Simon & Eden began to excite world mirth, an irate official of the Wilhelmstrasse declared, "There was no 'Hitler monolog.' The conversations lasted for eight hours and never at any time did the Leader speak uninterruptedly for more than 20 minutes...
...monolog whose narrator, a light lady, tells of her disappointing experience in running into the busy Battle of Chancellorsville instead of the unengaged arms of free-spending soldiers...