Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying to steal the presidency from him with lies about his past and misrepresentations about his present. Radio listeners who heard only the Hoover voice imagined him flushed and fighting mad. The President's-audience within the hall saw a pale, distraught man, deeply aroused by political forces beyond his control. His scalding words, his tense tones were what many a Republican had wanted to see him use three months instead of three weeks before election...
...Beyond Tampico's forest of oil derricks, heavy weather buffeted the plane. Pilot Clevenger had to turn back, flying so low that the prelate's nervousness increased to terror. That night they kept him in Tampico. Next day he was placed on a "special train" (engine and one car) guarded by 30 soldiers. They did not reach the border until close to midnight. A group of priests and U. S. officials were there to receive the Archbishop, forward news of his arrival to the Vatican, install the exile in a private home to await developments...
...BEYOND DESIRE-Sherwood Anderson -Liveright...
Sherwood Anderson used to call himself a storyteller, but that was long ago. It is seven years since he wrote a novel, four years since he retired to Marion. Va. to run two country newspapers. Sensitive as a weathervane to the intellectual current of the day, but dizzied beyond his normal bewilderment by conflicting winds of doctrine, he has been doing his unlevel best to understand and express what, if anything, the U. S. is driving at. Though he has always sympathized with the individual Americano aspiring to be an individual, he has been impressed by the intelligentsiae preoccupation with...
...Oliver, central figure of Beyond Desire, only son of a smalltown Southern doctor, was an ordinary young fellow with ordinary longings: to have a woman, to amount to something. Though it is impossible to piece together, from Author Anderson's meandering and sometimes subterranean narrative, the complete career of Hero Red. he apparently went to college for a while and was a good baseball player. Then he started to work in a mill in his home town, wished he had nerve enough lo get himself a girl. His only affair, too brief and onesided to be at all satisfactory...