Word: scares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what is an entertaining but not very profound analysis, Mann describes Spanish non-intervention as a "transparent, disingenuous comedy," and terms it merely the first step in the cumulative, knavery which led to Berchtesgaden; the war scare, he says, was merely a cruel theatrical joke played on the masses of people, straining their nerves to the cracking point until they would overlook Czechoslovakia's betrayal in their gratitude for the avoidance...
...Since the war scare London's theatre-goers have been so jittery that stage shootings there must now be committed "quietly." Backstage notices read: "A loud report is now a physical strain which causes both pain and actual illness...
...Stahleymen went into a 20 to 12, loud at half-time, and they were never seriously threatened until the closing moments of the contest As the final minutes ticked off, Brown threw a scare into the Yardlings as they whittled away the long lead which had been piled up against them...
Last year, long before the recent war scare, Dr. Dunn received from England a consignment of mice with a hereditary defect. Their teeth grew backward into their jaws, causing early death from malnutrition. Reason for this shipment was the same: fear of destruction by bombs...
Done in grey, with staring whites and blacks, Guernica had a visceral effect on Londoners who had just got over the war scare, an esthetic kick for the critics. The Times's, Eric Newton noted that in his studies for a screaming woman (see cut) Picasso had drawn each feature from the most expressive angle (eyes from the front, nose from the side, nostrils from below) for intensity. The Observer's Jan Gordon observed that the big composition employed Abstraction in its jagged design, Expressionism in its mangled figures, Surrealism in its eerie details...