Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief lieutenants, and witnessed some of their works - the burning of the Reichstag, the June blood purge. Now & again he would send a profile of one of them to LIFE or The New Yorker. They were portraits sketched with careful artlessness against the background of the subject's weird biography and crimes...
...makers of "Foreign Correspondent" the War is a matter of purely secondary importance. To Mr. Alfred Hitchcock in particular it is merely a road to his happy hunting grounds--a weird land of rain and mist where he can revel in his clement, suspense. Genially he takes you on a tour through croaking old windmills and murky side streets, pointing out the sights until your eyes bulge out of their sockets, and enjoying his own depravity intensely. For Mr. Hitchcock is a sadist, and "Foreign Correspondent" is a rhapsody in sadism, an apotheosis of the Horrid...
...they had once laughed down on the balloon idea: a brilliant Oxford professor named Frederick Alexander Lindemann. One of Winston Churchill's closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr. Lindemann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, he once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins-which worked. He was thought to have something to do with...
...said their lines had not yet suffered any major dislocation. Lord Beaverbrook said production of fighters and bombers was never so high. Food was plentiful. Civilian morale was good. Life in London air-raid shelters was almost carnival-in its first fortnight (see p. 2p). But it was a weird, unnatural life, even for the birds, which awoke and sang when searchlights turned night into day. It was nerve-racking and man-consuming-air war of attrition in which the emphasis seemed to be shifting from losses of planes and pilots to losses of factories, losses of equipment, losses...
...introduced "zombi" into U. S. speech. Adventures in Arabia found Seabrook among the whirling dervishes, learning to become a trance mystic. Jungle Ways presented him studying magic on the Ivory Coast, photographing phallic monuments, eating human flesh ("like good, fully developed veal"). Asylum was a frank account of another weird region: a New York insane asylum where he was cured of dipsomania...