Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dramatiques where, peeking through keyholes, he witnesses a horrid scene between an old lady and a child whom she is teaching to fly. When he emerges from the mirror, the young man finds himself transformed into a statue above a courtyard where children are fighting with snowballs. Snowballs eventually smash the young man in his statuary form. Dressed in evening clothes, at a table in the snow, he plays cards with the young lady who advised him to walk through the mirror, no longer marble now but a solemn and equivocal Muse. A polite audience chuckles at the game from...
...wingback is simply a halfback who takes position about a yard and a half behind the line of scrimmage and about the same distance outside his own end. When both halfbacks are in such position, it is a double wingback pattern. Some times one wingback helps his end to smash in on the tackle, boxing him and piling up his side of the line, while a play dashes through. Or a wingback may turn and run behind the line of scrimmage, taking the ball - or pretending to - from one of the three other backs as they sweep past...
Divine Drudge (by Vicki Baum & John Golden; John Golden, producer). Based on a Baum novel (And Life Goes On) serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine this play has none of the swift movement, the arresting reality which made Grand Hotel a smash hit and a pattern for imitators. It unfolds a devious tale about a smalltown German doctor (Walter Abel) and his wife (Mady Christians). For seven years she has assisted him in perfecting what he believes to be a momentous medical discovery. Suddenly she runs away from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home...
...spoke the Premier, a man of the moderate Left (his party is misnamed Radical Socialist), warmed up the Chamber until finally even his enemies on the extreme Left and Right were cheering him. He won a smash vote of confidence 470 to 120 - in effect on the issue of Adolf Hitler. After that the Chamber buckled down to debate the budget with "extreme urgency" and the life of the Daladier Cabinet was in danger every minute...
...Treaty of Versailles. Hitler's technique of assault, highly developed during his struggle for power in Germany, consists in alternate hammer blows and conciliatory gestures. This method kept his German political foes in turmoil, helped to paralyze their resistance until the Nazis were able at last to smash, dissolve and confiscate the property and funds of all rival German parties. Last week, trying out his technique on France, Chancellor Hitler let it be known that the "real purpose" of his speech was to offer Premier Daladier of France an opportunity to settle all outstanding ques-tions between...