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Hollywood has coined and adapted words (It, Oomph) to illustrate some of its byproducts, but until lately it had never found a suitable synonym for its basic commodity, which is not movies, not stars, not the California sun, but a souped-up state of mind accompanied by delusions of grandeur and prestige. Such a word has now gained currency in Hollywood: izzat (pronounced...
This book is therefore a sensational re-evaluation of the great Talleyrand, whose name is almost a synonym for villainy, as the "most constructive force" of the 19th Century...
...something more than a military massacre. It had some of its roots in the management of the home industrial front. . . . Our efforts shall not be brought to naught by a group of incompetents. . . . There are men in Britain who think patriotism is another name for profit and democracy a synonym for dividends. . . . There will be more Cretes unless changes are made in this country...
...farmer's favorite synonym for prosperity-$1 wheat-was a reality last week. Commodity Credit Corp. announced a new wheat loan rate of 98? a bushel, up 33? from 1940. Together with parity and conservation payments, this guarantees farmers about $1.16 a bushel-best average price since 1927. Under the new Fulmer-85%-of-parity-loan law (TIME, May 12), CCC had no choice...
With a small membership, no popular support, no subsidy for its newspaper, Fritt Folk, it looked last week as though the Samling would starve to death. It also seemed that the Nazis had written another definition for "quisling" into the dictionary. A synonym for "traitor" in many languages, it now means "sucker" as well...