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Other great powers have always maintained espionage systems along with their armies and navies. The U.S., with a mixture of trust and indifference, never has-outside of cracking codes and listening to teacup gossip at foreign embassies. That historical innocence, which ended in the fiasco of Pearl Harbor, is now gone...
...find out what had happened in Round Two. In his best dash-it-all manner, Lord Halifax replied: "Oh, I forgot to mention that. Rather an oversight. Too bad, wasn't it?" Thus coolly, the British Ambassador dismissed Mr. Hull's rage as a teacup tempest, and the incident was closed...
...corner drugstore−she thought Dr. Samuels might be in New York City trying to get in touch with her. While she waited, she -read suggestions that would-be-helpful people had written to her: try catchup in beer, try holding your ears, try wishing on an inverted teacup. Said Miss Mayer: "Such superstition...
...Time (Warners) earnestly dramatizes the collision between a resistible force (liberalism) and a movable object (feudalism). The place: Poland, just before World War II. When Polish Aristocrat Paul Henreid tells his family he intends to marry British Commoner Ida Lupino, his mother drop's and breaks a cherished teacup. They marry anyhow, and by the time the Nazis invade Poland the wife has turned her idle husband into a man, his estate into a solvent farm, his ancestral home into a one-night playroom for the peasants-who are delighted to have become sharecroppers. A reactionary uncle...
Heart of a City is a teacup version of The Wookey, with more sugar in it than tea. At times it is touching, at other times amusing (there is plenty of good old British ragging to tone down its heroics); but lacking imagination and any real eye for character, Playwright Storm can write only with a kind of mild, admiring tremulousness. She never really gets round to writing a play. Heart of a City is almost entirely atmosphere, and all its scenes are pretty much alike. Hence each scene is less effective than the one before it, and by curtain...