Word: poof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Naturally it was necessary to show what happened to a girl from Albany in the wicked city. Fay Wray is the charming victim, and although she is in constant company with Steve and Chuck, she retains her simple, sweet, and virtuous habits to the very end. A superior "poof" from Mr. Walsh, the director, should help much in making other directors pay less attention to environment in the future. I heartily recommend "The Bowery" with the exception of the last five minutes which seemed superfluous; it gives a lively picture of the slums of New York in the nineties...
...crisis the cabinet of that ineffectual Socialist, Pudgy Herman Müller lived for 21 months until last week. The saving crisis was the Young Plan of reparations. When it passed the Reichstag, when the crisis was over (TIME, March 24), the cabinet became a house of cards. "Poof!" went all the cabinet ministers last week. "Poof!" they voluntarily resigned. "Poof!" they gave the excuse of not being able to agree on the budget bill. "Poof!" fell the house of cards...