Word: anew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems raised for Chicago will be far deeper than plans for an appropriate cortege, or for a day of universal mourning. Tumult and shouting can only defer the day when she will have to scan anew the list of aspirants to her highest office. Charles E. Merriam will, somewhat more impatiently after these twenty years, demand again that a government now impecunious must pass to the expert, and to the honest; and at the University there will be reawakened vistas of regulatory grandeur. Clicking receivers will carry tentative promises of patronage to the Mayor's revived political opponents...
...LADY DANGEROUS-Sydney Horler -Harper ($2). The British Secret Service uses a female decoy to frustrate an arch-plotter; the Empire is saved anew...
...only because of the confidence he inspired and his autocratic powers but also because of "the loyalty or unquestioning obedience of officials who evidently were selected with great care (some for their ability, others for their weaknesses). . . ." Moralized Price, Waterhouse: "The history of this Group of Companies emphasizes anew the truth that enterprises in which complete secrecy on the part of the chief executive as to the way in which important parts of the capital are employed is, or is alleged to be, essential . . . are fundamentally unsuited for public investment...
TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...
...back, sick for home. The boy listens to the old man uneasily, but he goes on. A brother watches his sister being made into a nun, falls in love with the novice kneeling by her side. When he hears the priest take away their given names and christen them anew, it is as if the world ended...