Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asked Soviet Author Kononenko: "Why can't the collective farmer or ordinary worker become a hero? That's what should be impressed more often...
Divorced. Walter White, 56, author (Rope and Faggot, A Man Called White) and aggressive secretary (since 1931) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; by Leah Gladys White, fiftyish; after 27 years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico...
...marry, she does her own proposing, pouncing on a social-climbing old rake who had won her heart by pinching her at 14. She gets her man but loses her fortune: the elder Montdores strike her from their will and seem to plummet, from shock, into old age. Author Mitford is no woman to let her story stop there. With 80 pages to go, she rushes in scented, scintillating Cousin Cedric, the new heir from Canada, to charm Lady Montdore off the shelf. A face lifting, some rigorous massage and the trick of pronouncing the word "brush" before entering...
...frosting on Author Mitford's story of the happily selfish Montdores is so light and fluffy as to leave the reader wondering whether she is really selling satire or simple nostalgia for the good old prewar and pre-Labor days in Britain...
...induce these terrified infants to strip and climb the dark, evil-smelling flues," writes Author Phillips, masters used "beatings with rods and ropes, straw lighted beneath them, pins stuck in their legs . . . kicks on their bottoms." The rough flues rubbed great open sores on elbows and knees, which masters hardened with saltpeter; after about six months, they stopped hurting...