Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapiers in Tokyo, cocky little Japanese Foreign Minister Koko Hirota and gruff, sad-eyed Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev were so jangle-nerved last week that each was glad to throw the issue at stake to his native Press, which promptly charged the other's Government with a "Gigantic Plot...
...irony was heightened when bustling Dr. Goebbels seized charge of preparations for Old Paul's funeral, shushed his son Col. Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
...stories. The anecdote is interesting apart from the narration so that it would secure attention if it were told over the dinner-table; and that seems to me a very great merit indeed. ... I have little doubt that Chekhov would have written stories with an ingenious, original and striking plot if he had been able to think of them." But Maugham gives Chekhov his due: "I do not know that anyone . . . has so poignantly been able to represent spirit communing with spirit. It is this that makes one feel that Maupassant, in comparison, is obvious and vulgar...
...different as prose and poetry are the two prevailing types of detectification: 1) the shooting-&-chasing kind, with more action than plot, the denouement hidden by red herrings; 2) the novel which attempts to convey an impression of real people, leisurely, intelligent, even sophisticated, with a minimum of shock and horror. The thriller market has lately declined with a consequent rise in general interest in the more subtle type of this brand of fiction...
...arrest, never knowing when his guards might turn executioners, had made the Vice Chancellor's eyes red from sleepless worry-or nervous weeping. Even a son of onetime All Highest Kaiser Wilhelm, gape-jawed, goggle-eyed Prince August Wilhelm ("Auwi"), had been called on the carpet as a plot suspect by bull-necked Nazi General Hermann Wilhelm Göring. After grilling perspiring "Auwi," whom he scared half to death, General Göring kicked him out of the Nazi Party and out of the Storm Troops in which he had been a group commander with the stinging words...