Word: reverted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend old-age pension element. Vermont, still Republican, can contribute only one piece of news to the election: if it should go Democratic it would signify that a fourth successive New Deal landslide had hit the nation. New Hampshire, a more sensitive indicator, needs to swing only slightly to revert to Republicanism...
Dramatic Club authorities, disclaiming responsibility for the Leftist sentiments of "Cannibal Carnival," gave as the reason the play was chosen "the inherent instinct in all of us to revert to the primitive, i.e. cannibalism...
...better look out for themselves. A German and Russian clash might come and the Baltic would be the danger zone. Accordingly the Foreign Ministers of the Scandinavian countries continue to meet from time to time in the Swedish capital to discuss their ultimate aims-to get trade independence, to revert to their traditional neutrality, to maintain the democracy of the north. Though Denmark is one of Europe's most pacifist nations, the Danish Premier, bearded Social Democrat Thorvald Stauning, is beginning to see the sense of Sweden's dictum that disarmed neutrality is a practical impossibility. Denmark...
...bleak, rainy afternoon, years later, in an office in a northern navy yard, a group of men talked idly, as sailors will. What more natural than that their memories should revert to sunnier scenes, and several having served in Samoa, the talk soon turned on this very incident. As the event was illuminated from different points in time the following sequel developed...
Night Key (Universal) refreshingly presents famed Bogeyman Boris Karloff as a gaunt, lovable genius at electrical gadgets. Much of the picture's suspense comes from the expectation that he will suddenly revert to monster type. He never does, though he has plenty of provocation...