Word: prescient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bros., with no grudge at all against lawyers, are constrained to angle the picture's villainies some other way. They do it by suggesting that there is something vaguely unholy about owning real estate. The result is a picture whose ponderous pointlessness may well have been foreseen by prescient Miss Stanwyck on the first day's shooting. Said she to Cinemactor Brent, as the cameras prepared to roll: "Well, here we go again...
CALAMITY TOWN-Ellery Queen-Little, Brown ($2). The prescient Mr. Queen, unable to prevent the poison-murder he foresaw, probes small-town family histories for an unexpected answer to an intricate and beguiling mystery. The best Queen story in several years...
When the Japanese attacked in December, prescient Admiral Helfrich flung up his arms and exclaimed: "There you have it! We could have sunk their transports." His fleet was already at sea, and 24 hours after the first Jap attacks, his submarines sank four enemy transports off Malaya. His Navy's bag in the first 54 days of war: 54 Jap ships...
...Last International" is Chief Analyst Cowley's prescient vision of the dead march of his comrades "against the Capitol...
Died. Frederick Britten Austin, 55, author of many a super-serial historical romance (The Road to Glory); in Weston super Mare, England. Romancer Austin's heroic imagination made his magazine articles prescient. Said he in 1935: "Imagine four million Parisians streaming out of Paris by every road, choking every artery, hindering all military movements, preventing the influx of supplies, paralyzing more or less the nerve centre of the country. That is what is going to happen when the first German bombers appear over Paris...