Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Theo and Tom West get off to a glowing start. Tom, an architect, is absorbed in a low-cost housing project. Theo bears two children rather sooner than she is spiritually adequate to the job. Their friends are solid-seeming, yet Theo finds infidelities among them, and at length, bored, crib-ridden, anesthetic towards her husband and afraid of losing her youth, she has an affair herself. When Tom, a simple, active man, finds out, it drives him half out of his wits, her into penitence, both into a cruel psychic deadlock whose detailing is the best thing...
When President Roosevelt cracked down on the Japanese move into Indo-China by freezing credits, he moved far. The whole U.S. accepted his act as a step just short of war. But the U.S. reaction was quiet, solid agreement, in which even most isolationists joined. His second dramatic move, folding the Philippine defense forces into the U.S. Army (see p. 30), left no doubt of how much further he was ready to go. The two acts were more than a warning to the Japanese of war to come-they amounted to a declaration of economic war with military...
Even among last-ditch, Lindbergh isolationists, 38% believe that Hitler will attack the Americas if he wins his war in Europe. Altogether, a solid 72% of the U.S. people think that Hitler will try to conquer the world. But the U.S. is not sure where its defense should begin. A bare majority (51.6%) would use force to defend Britain. A few more (59%) would fight to hold the Philippine Islands (see p. 11). But 83% would defend some part of South America, 67.7% would defend it all. More than 98% would fight for the U.S. itself...
...glorify war, does not try to horn in on the U.S. and World War II. It stays scrupulously within the bounds of one man's part in another war. But by showing what he found in the U.S. worth fighting for, it becomes Hollywood's first solid contribution to national defense...
Among all Newport's stately summer palaces, the pride and grandeur of the Oelrichs house, Rosecliff, stood out for almost 40 years as one of the most glittering white elephants of them all. Built at a cost of 2,500,000 solid turn-of-the-century dollars, this summer place of 22 master bedrooms, a fabulous hand-decorated, two-story ballroom and immense dining rooms, stood on Bellevue Avenue, along with the palaces of the Whitneys, the Belmonts, the Havemeyers, Fahnestocks, Goulds and Astors. In those days, hard-eyed, black-mustached, hard-driving tycoons (who enjoyed such titles...