Word: objects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Being anxious to avoid charges of "spreading propaganda," the Committee on Elementary Modern Language Instruction, which is sponsoring the film, chose the most innocuous subject possible. That is a wise move; there are so many people who will object to any German movie being shown, regardless of content, that to present an out-and-out propaganda film would only make criticism more vehement. But once the novelty of German films as such has worn off, the U. T. might well experiment with Nazified productions...
...Blunt object of Germany's indiscriminate war on neutral shipping is to discourage neutrals from trading with Great Britain. Great Britain's reply is her convoy system, of which she invites neutrals to take advantage, setting at one in 450 the chances of a convoyed ship's being lost. This week the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Norway and Sweden were to meet in Copenhagen to consider forming convoys armed by themselves. From Sept. 3 to Feb. 15, Norway alone lost 47 vessels totaling 103,121 tons, nine of them in the last month. Last week she demanded...
...rating of French men? She comes elegant and plain, extravagant and thrifty, faithless and devoted, wanton and maternal-yet so do women in plenty of other lands. A good reason for her rating is that the French woman is unique in her talent for creating, either as love-object or as mistress of the home, enduring human relations of exceptional harmony and interest. In the main she contrives to satisfy-her lover, her husband, her children, her parents, herself...
...spirited contest for most popular U. S. radio performer, Comedian Jack Benny has since October 1937 run a close second to a perverse but inanimate object -the saucy ventriloquist's dummy known as Charlie McCarthy. At the 1939 finish, Charlie (Chase and Sanborn Hour) had an estimated 27,000,000 Sunday-night listeners: Jell-O's Jack Benny, an hour earlier on the same NBC-Red network, 24,000,000. Beginning Jan. 7, Standard Brands pared the Chase and Sanborn program to a half-hour, saving some $7,500 in airtime charges, plus salaries of Hollywood fixtures like...
...voiced a layman's proposition which any theologian worth his salt could turn upside down: "Before men can worship, they must eat." Said Preacher Lewis: "I believe in God and the Christian church. I believe any country devoted solely to materialism lacks something. You can draw your object lesson from Germany. . . . The church in Germany has lost the confidence of young men and women...