Word: outward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stonily at ease. It has its old families and old legends, its tireless political disputes, its pleasant wooden dwellings, nice lawns, and some of the softest Southern accents in the South. It has new pavements and filling stations painted in tropical colors, new bright-fronted chain stores which are outward evidence of recent community change...
...Outward Bound (by Sutton Vane; produced by The Playhouse Co.). Seeing an attractive play again after 15 years is usually as disillusioning as re-encountering a once-attractive woman. But Outward Bound comes off better than "well-preserved," still retains its humor, imaginativeness, suspense and its more elusive quality of "theatre." Profound, or even provocative, it never was; the play is effective just because it treats the idea of death simply, concretely, familiarly. The appeal of Playwright Sutton Vane's imagination is not its incandescence or daring, but its deep kinship with Everyman...
...mind where they commit crazy, tragic actions--Mary Orr, for example, who just "upped" and deserted her husband after twenty years, or the Island wife who jumped into the sea one fine day. It is hard for us to regard these abrupt acts, that come with so little outward warning, as normal. We cannot understand the simplicity of a Thomas King who blows the head off his powerful body after carefully feeding his cows. We make our suicides spectacular...
Sharp warnings that Republicans in Congress must not adopt obstructionist tactics in dealing with social reforms and that the G.O.P. gains at the polls should be interpreted more as a protest vote against extreme New Deal proposals than a swing toward Republicanism, punctuated the outward air of harmony that prevailed...
...Hitler (Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich), did not fly to Paris. Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...