Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom hit Boston yesterday with a thud as of a rotten tomato and with odor to match. Poor gags, far-fetched puns, drawn-out dialogue, and a well-nigh non-existent plot combine to make "Harvard, Here I Come" as a rather tedious ordeal. Except for the local interest in Hollywood's presentation of what bodes ill to become its favorite subject, Harvard, the show is merely another low metabolism slapstick comedy...
...uneasy New Year for Adolf Hitler. Something was rotten in the German Army. The Führer had just relieved Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from his command (TIME, Dec. 29) and was now, in fact as well as title, the Oberste Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Army). But the Oberste Befehlshaber could scarcely have felt as magnificent as his title...
Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov addressed a violent memorandum last week to all nations with which he deals, complaining of German atrocities against Soviet prisoners of war: "Miserable rations of rotten bread or rotten potatoes . . . hands cut off. eyes gouged, stomachs ripped open . . . raping and outraging of the honor of women . . . stripping the wounded naked...
...Nordics -just as, when it later became convenient, Doktor Rosenberg pronounced the Italians "Mediterranean Nordics." The Englishman was "at once arrogant, rude and brave when he raises his hand and establishes an empire-a creative nation of masters! . . . The United States have the great task, after throwing overboard the rotten ideas upon which they were founded, of creating a racial state...
...Roosevelt angling of news. Meantime its isolationist -propaganda -as-news-unsurpassed for furious bias since frontier journalism -has probably qualified the Tribune for first rank in any like poll in 1941. Alone among U.S. newspapers since 1933, the Tribune has got its papers burned in public bonfires, its offices rotten-egged. Also unique is the range of hatred for the Tribune: it cuts across all class lines in Chicago, from stockyard worker to millionaire...