Word: strains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PURITAN STRAIN-Faith Baldwin -Farrar & Rinehart...
Published last week was the second of the series, The Puritan Strain. Shrewdly made up of the time-tested ingredients of the familiar triangle plot, it tells the story of 40-year-old Elizabeth Condit Gates who, like the heroine of many a popular romance, fell high-mindedly in love with her husband's best friend. Author Baldwin takes many liberties with the conventions of sentimental fiction: 1) in showing Elizabeth clinging to her lover despite her regret at the pain she caused her husband; 2) going on with her plans to remarry despite her agony...
...overthrow of Stalin. As the world's greatest living Revolutionist, stern Leon Trotsky has paid no attention to Josef Stalin's arrest in Russia last year of the Great Exile's son Sergei Trotsky. As the Trotskys settled in Norway, Mme Trotsky, worn by the strain, released to the world Press her confession of fear that Sergei may be tortured into making a statement of some sort tending to incriminate his father in Soviet eyes...
Last week he took the single-seater experimental fighter to the Navy's proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...
...insists he really enjoys testing planes. Only protection he wears in power dives is a regulation safety belt. He never shouts while diving, unconvinced that it relieves the strain. Tall, slightly hunched, with brown hair and eyes, a ready smile, he makes his home in New York with his wife and son, lives well on his large earnings...