Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such a lyric manner, did Fabre, one of the world's great entomologists, record the daily lives of insects: fired by devotion to his "dear friends," he could describe the horrid or the humdrum in paragraphs almost like fairy tales in their mystery and charm...
...marine department in 1924 after quitting the Navy (Annapolis, class of 1916). A vice president in charge of operations when he was 38, he was Avery's choice for president ten years later in 1942. As Keady took over more & more of the company's operations, Chicagoans almost forgot that Avery had anything to do with Gypsum...
...dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years of public silence; poverty; a long and apparently hopeless engagement...
...aware of the gifts he did not have; he once said he would have given everything he had done for the spontaneous lyric quality of Suckling or Lovelace. As a philosophical poet he almost never crystallized the clouds of theistic faith that filled his head. The great Lord Acton spoke of "the airiness of his metaphysics, the indefiniteness of his knowledge, his neglect of transitions." His criticism was put more gaily by Algernon Swinburne in his parody of Tennyson's Higher Pantheism...
Love's biggest pressagent was Fawcett Publications, already a big name in the pulps (True Confessions) and adventure comics (Captain Marvel, Tom Mix). Fawcett's Sweethearts was up to the 1,000,000 mark, and Fawcett's Life Story was runnerup with 700,000 readers. But almost everybody was doing it. At 10? a throw, America's girls & boys, aged 8 to 80, would soon have their pick of 100 love & romance books, published by two dozen different concerns, with an average press run of 500,000 copies. Said Fawcett's Helen Houghton last week...