Word: poof
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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...
...Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...
...came like one banker coming to meet another. There was very little question of capacity to pay. The British were too proud to admit that they might be unable to pay any debt they had contracted. The negotiations were chiefly a matter of arranging suitable terms. The Belgians came, poof and little, but proud. They were faced by a creditor who acknowledged that there were moral reasons for mitigating the debt. Arrangements were worked out on this basis. The French came exclaiming "We are poor! Oh, so poor, hélas!" and were intent on driving a bargain on semi...
Last month, the French army transport Loiret was crossing the Bay of Biscay. It was vile weather, but poof ! thought the officers, what of that? They were 160 kilometres off shore and their hydrographic charts showed 4,000 to 5,000 metres of water under keel...