Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over all, I felt highly encouraged by what I saw. I believe Europe has a real chance now. The French, unlike a year ago, are now going strong. For one thing, they're eating better-self-sufficiency in food is a priceless advantage in the current crisis. They may have more Communist trouble, but it looks like they will be able to take care of it. The Dutch, too, are on the road back -when even conservative Dutch officialdom admits that things are better, they're better...
Enhancing Milady. If anybody knows about Hollywood nightclubs, and how to get a room jumping, it's Herman Hover. When he took an option on the famed Giro's six years ago, he was taking on the town's No. 1 white elephant. When a fire gutted it shortly afterward, his prospects looked even worse. But four years ago this month Hover started up again: the place has been jumpy ever since. It didn't seem to matter what happened to Hollywood-congressional investigations, hirings & firings, falling box office-so long as people could hash...
...such tributes cannot define De la Mare's quality nor pin his shoulders to a critical mat. In contemporary literature no figure is more elusive. Even De la Mare's best friends sometimes think of him as a creature they may have imagined, and he himself long ago made it clear that in imagination he has his breath and being...
Almost two years ago, big, amiable Robert Harlan Van Gelder quit his job as editor of the New York Times Book Review to write his first novel. On the strength of his name, an opening chapter and an outline of what was to come, his publishers had given him an unprecedented advance of $20,000. For all of three days (a long life for that kind of gossip), it was the talk of the trade...
...lieutenants at all hours of the night. Sometimes he identifies himself as "Mr. Hoyt." He has had a number of other aliases, including one for the Town House in Los Angeles, one for the tailors from whom he never buys any clothes, and one which he used, years ago, when he got a job as co-pilot with American Airlines ($250 a month but good experience...