Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deploring the "cold war" at an Anglo-American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...
Good News. Good tunes and June Allyson in a hearty revival of one of the best musicals of the '20s (TIME...
...Silent People Speak ridicules the idea that Yugoslavia lies behind an iron curtain, and fervently portrays Tito's ruthless satrapy as a democratic government which differs from the U.S. merely in form, not in essence. It is a faithful echo of books which appeared in the '20s and '30s praising the new-type "democracy" of the Soviet Union...
Good News. Good tunes and June Allyson in a hearty reversion to one of the best musicals of the '20s (TIME...
Novelist Knut Hamsun, 88, who won fame in the '20s with his hard-breathing accounts of man's bare-knuckled fight with Mother Nature (Growth of The Soil), was sued in Norway for the damage he had done his native land as a wartime collaborator. "The Germans expected a lot from me," protested the 1920 Nobel Prizewinner, "but they were not altogether pleased." Altogether pleasing or not, Collaborator Hamsun owed the nation $86,000, the court decided...