Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risque play all through; the moments of bogus high comedy which mar the efforts of the smartly cynical gentry are pleasingly absent. The theme is the ancient and unfailing one of seduction--but without any philosophy or moralizing, except for the rationalizing in which any normal man might indulge when unexpectedly surprised in a bedroom with his lithesome stenographer; this bedroom is--as it should be--the center around which the action of the play revolves. It is in this fatal bedroom that Warren Pascal is caught when his fiancee and her brother unexpectedly arrive; poor Warren with admirable technique...
...also has the sense of a trivial or disreputable person, as in "this mad fellow," or "this is a postilent fellow." In later English literature, this last sense became quite prevalent, as in Pope's line. "Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow." But the ancient sense remains common in this country in the sense of the companion or mate--though the "good fellow" is happily the commonest fellow of all. Whether the new fellows at Harvard will ever be commonly so called we do not know. But they are a welcome institute: and these Middle Westerners...
...France's northeastern border, the Saar Basin. Largely German, most of his charges would two years ago have welcomed the plebiscite scheduled for next year to decide whether the Saar will be French or German. But now Saar Socialists, Communists and Catholics, faced with choosing between their ancient enemy France and Nazi Germany, are begging to have the plebiscite postponed. Their newspapers howl direfully against Hitler & friends. In reply Nazi terrorists swoop snarling and rending through the Saar. And to make confusion worse confounded French-subsidized newspapers try to sell the Germans on voting to join France...
Bratislava. All through the fighting, leader of the Socialist forces was dumpy Dr. Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...
...Americans who still cling to the ancient facts in honesty take heart! This Administration not only speaks to you about justice. It dares to defy the power of concentrated wealth and privilege to secure it. In your name it tells the beneficiary of fraud to surrender his booty...