Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horses. Now the horses of war were ready to ride. Bock took over the northern group of armies on the Polish border, Rundstedt the southern. Against the bewildered Poles, with their pennoned lances and their military roots still in the '90s, the two generals had little more than maneuver exercise. But they took their medals and they wore them. And Rundstedt, the exquisite, stayed in Poland as military administrator, saw and approved the massacre of civilians, the wholesale deportation of families, without ruffling one of his neatly parted hairs...
When he died of a heart ailment last week at 52, he looked like the last of his kind. No authority remained who could identify the 400, much less speak for it. The old high society, which reached its height in the studiedly charming '90s, and began to decline even before World War I, was finally buried with...
Died. Emil von Sauer, 79, famed concert pianist of the '90s; of a heart attack; in Vienna...
...20th Century-Fox) is the kind of bright, tuneful, lighthearted musical that was once Broadway's dish. It has the authentic Tin-Pan Alley touch-gilded by the nostalgic charm of the nicely naughty '90s. It also has so many other good things that it is a rare cinema treat...
...warm share of Sal's appeal is owing to the man it celebrates: genial, sentimental, gargantuan (300 lb.) Paul Dresser, onetime minstrel, most popular song writer of the '90s, and oldest brother of lugubrious Novelist Theodore Dreiser (who kept the original family name). Dreiser, who wrote the first verse and the chorus of one of his brother's best songs (On the Banks of the Wabash), also wrote the story on which Sal is based...