Word: planets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bernice's errand for herself is enough to set anyone thinking with no unconcern about what he is doing on this planet and why. It is very doubtful whether many Army nurses react to their dynamic surroundings in quite the way Bernice does, and it is a tribute to Miss Lawrence's personal charm and utter sincerity of portrayal that matters do not get unconvincing...
...41st book, Golden Gate Land, a 100,000-word history of her native northern California. She also delivered some birthday thoughts, called the Germans a "nation of fools," declared they should be shown "no mercy." Of the Japanese, she remarked: "Barbarians-they don't belong on this planet...
Asia. Combining about 522,000,000 people in about 42 sovereign states, it is the only area of the planet where "the facts of international life conform with the spirit of the Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic is the crucial area of U.S. fate...
...watches her better half walk off with the act. Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes the entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever liked Lewis-or John Barrymore -is happy. There are at least a dozen other acts, some of them all right. But they seem like three dozen, and the air gets so thick with self-congratulation that...
Beginning with an ordinary broadcasting procedure of a New York station, reports of explosions from the planet Mars break into the broadcast. An interview at a Princeton astronomical observatory is followed by a description of a scene nearby where the first Martian cylinder has landed and begins to spread destruction throughout New Jersey. From here the play depicts increasingly alarming incidents of destructive power of the Martians, and builds to a climax with an "eye-witness" destruction of New York City...