Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British people these fulminations seemed surprisingly unsubtle. In the House of Commons Sir Neville Chamberlain said he did not "propose to waste time by commenting at length." That the speech was unsubtle at least in its efforts to pry France from England was proved by the Paris reaction-gay ridicule. Italians were a bit hurt by the fact that over the radio they heard no sound when Ribbentrop praised Italy but a huge cheer when Russia was mentioned...
...workers must be upheld.' We cannot go against Comrade Lenin." But they hastily order "the smallest, dirtiest room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share...
Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...
...Latest theory of the complicated workings of allergic reaction: An allergen enters the bloodstream. If there are specific antibodies already present in the blood, the allergen is "conquered" and no symptoms result. But if the body is taken unawares, and antibodies are resting in tissue cells, a terrific battle follows. The offending allergen may be "neutralized," but only with great damage to tissue cells. As the cells are torn, large quantities of the chemical histamine escape into the bloodstream, cause "certain organic reactions ... in the walls of the blood vessels and in the smooth muscles...
KITTY FOYLE - Christopher Morley -Lippincott ($2.50). Author Morley's 46th book is apparently a reaction against his cloying reputation for whimsy. Heroine is the kind of a girl things happen to, a wisecracking blurter who has an abortive affair with a Philadelphia socialite. At once too sophisticated and too crude, too literary and too "natural," her confessions are a departure from the old Morley Mellowness into a sort of Muley Naturalism...