Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot centers around an original angle in the Washington turmoil and chaos theme, the servant situation, and an old one, the rooming situation, with the red tape of bureaucracy is thrown in for good measure. Pretty Paulette Goddard, as a neophyte secretary who prefers memorization to shorthand, cancels her boss's (Fred MacMurray) reservations in a crowded Washington hotel because she doesn't like the rooms and then the fun starts...
...answer some questions for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gesturing constantly with a sidearm wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...
...dozed and thought, Nazi paratroopers dropped silently on dark Hungarian airfields. Before the early morning mists had lifted on Monday, March 20, German infantry motored into Hungary, deployed to seize every important rail and road center and all communications. Abruptly Budapest Radio ceased using as a theme the Rakoczi March with its impudent first line: "God of the Hungarians, destroy the German Army...
...emerged from the preview with a theme song for the girls...
...Fenwick family carries out the theme of Novelist Allen's title: that the U.S. was founded neither by revolution aries nor social reorganizers, but by "the disinherited" in a continent where "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...