Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What good would it do me to waste money on propaganda in America? . . . No doubt Jews are at the bottom of such reports...
Ernest Hemingway's critics are beginning to call him a professional Hard Guy, hint that at bottom he is an adolescent sentimentalist. His followers crane their necks up at him as if he were a Paul Bunyan of literature, striding from strength to strength. Plain readers read him because he sometimes writes stories that hold them breathless. All three will find what they are looking for in Hemingway's latest book. Nobody now could mistake a Hemingway story for anything else. His language may appear hard-boiled but it is really a carefully artificial dialect. His subjects...
...DRAGON MURDER CASE-S. S. Van Dine-Scribner ($2). Philo Vance is this time erudite on tropical fish, and very up-to-date mechanically on the dragon footprints littering the bottom of the swimming pool...
...every one's eagerness to buy. Business comes to a standstill. The Government's credit goes to pot. Then, as in Germany after the War, when everyone is ruined except a few profiteers, sanity returns, sound money is again established and everybody begins again-at the bottom. Right Horse Forward. John Citizen has not seen this gruesome spectre but it has lurked in the minds of many a financier and speculator, has induced them to hedge against inflation by buying commodities and common stocks. Last week the Treasury's announcement of a long-term bond issue swung...
...Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...