Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Nazis invaded Poland, Author Wladyslaw Anders (who is now living in exiled retirement in England) commanded two divisions of Polish infantry and a cavalry brigade. In no time at all, these troops were trapped between the advancing German and Russian armies. Within a month, General Anders was lying in a Polish forest, half-dead from eight wounds, his divisions broken and scattered...
...Shepherd, Speak!-the tenth (and "I hope the last," says Upton Sinclair) of the Lanny books-the author has brought his hero's adventures up to date. Apparently working on the reasonable assumption that what has pleased 1,350,000 U.S. and English customers will please them again, Sinclair sticks close to his well-exercised formula. He thrusts Lanny into every important event in the mid-1940s, records the portentous if often empty conversations of the powerful, and buttresses his story at weak points with solid slabs of historical summary...
...might even argue that the shaven jowl is invaluable in time of war: e.g., the Saxons might have won the Battle of Hastings if they had not panicked at sight of the clean-shaven Norman army. (They concluded that it consisted entirely of "Presbyteros"-which is Latin for "priests," Author Reynolds hastily explains, "not Presbyterians-a fantasy far more terrifying...
Britain's Reginald Reynolds, a "confirmed serendipitist" (discoverer of unexpected treasures) and the author of a learned, witty study of sewage-disposal problems (Cleanliness and Godliness, TIME, May 6, 1946), is no nostalgic yearner for the boskier days of old. In Beards he stands aloof (and beardless), a lollipop in one cheek and his tongue in the other, and lets the pro-and anti-beard factions fight...
Within a Budding Grove. All these arguments are plausible enough, but they cannot hold soup when the pro-beards come into action. Beavered Irishmen, for example, have always insisted that a beard is much handier and more absorbent than a table napkin (Author Reynolds concedes that his source for this is an English historian). Similarly, the 19th Century French Romantics demonstrated beyond doubt that by growing a broad enough beard a man could wear the same shirt collar for months on end. Moreover, as one authority has estimated, a bearded man could learn seven languages in the time spent...