Word: puppetized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rockefeller Sr., applied for U. S. citizenship papers in Toms River, N. J. Told he would have to renounce his title, he snorted: "Mister is good enough for me." In Manhattan, reporters discovered Arne Quisling, brother of Major Vidkun Quisling, leader of Norway's Nazi party and Hitler puppet. Said Brother Arne, who has been 15 years in the U. S.: "For me, I like it here. . . ." In Manhattan, Trapeze Artist Atrtrys Iwanows (of the "Daring Iwanows"), whose job demands a quick eye and nice judgment of distance, was unable to perform in his troupe's act with...
...Through Secretary of State Hull, stingingly denied recognition to a puppet government which Japan last week set up at Nanking to rule over Central China (where U. S. and most other foreign investments in China are concentrated...
...Chungking, capital of the free Chinese Republic, work was rushed on an iron statue of Wang Ching-wei, Japanese puppet installed last week in Nanking, and his wife. Pose: kneeling, like traitors about to be beheaded. Purpose: to let the populace spit on them...
...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...
Compared to the Piccoli's mechanical perfection, a puppet Pinocchio which also opened on Broadway last week merely strings along. But as a children's show (which the Piccoli primarily is not) it has its own naive, storybook charm. Unlike the Walt Disney cinema, it does not play ducks & drakes with the Collodi story...