Word: parallelisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general feeling of the Administration that the recent European crises have a definite U. S. analogy: that the parallel of sabre-rattling and mobilizing in Europe (artificial creation of a crisis) is to be found in the U. S. in extravagant misrepresentations of Government policies, in bogies set up before the eyes of industry and business. Among such bogies: that the Government plans little TVAs all over the U. S., that private utilities cannot raise money publicly for expansion, that the Federal tax burden is far higher than two, three or five years...
...going to quibble about a village!" was one of Adolf Hitler's cracks. Doodles by Benito Mussolini at the Conference consisted of scratching short parallel lines, making large capital letters at random. Premier Daladier said afterward that he had dissuaded the Führer from certain demands touching Bratislava. Added the Frenchman: "If there had been any question threatening the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, I would have resolutely refused to consider negotiating further." Herr Hitler said later that M. Daladier is "Ein ganzer Kerl," which Nazi aides translated as "a real...
...Mecca." Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory is not only unique in England; it has no parallel in the world. To create its like, it would be necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics...
Love-or, rather two and one-half loves-found Mickey Rooney yesterday at the University, and will continue to find him through Saturday. In this most popular if not the most skillfully made of the Hardy Family series, Mickey Rooney undergoes parallel love affairs with Polly, the true love, and Cynthia, a cooperative redhead at the same time humoring Judy Garland, who is there only to sing. If his facial contortions add up to something less than good acting, Mr. Rooney is nevertheless very funny; and although the Hardy pictures are starting to lose their simplicity and naturalness the lines...
...delightful only so long as the author contents himself with a certain ingratiating naivete; unfortunately Mr. Anderson was not content to leave the pleasant subtlety of his first act as the underlying essence of the whole production. Evidently he did not think his audience would enjoy drawing their own parallel between the pleasantly autocratic regime of Peter Stuyvesant and the government of today; before the comedy has run its course, the simile becomes more and more obvious to die in somewhat labored political satire...