Word: brittain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Vera Brittain is a born tract writer who persists in doing novels. In 1933, she made her reputation with Testament of Youth, a passionate, forthright, nonfictional assessment of the lost generation. Author Brittain has never again written so movingly...
...conclusion is inevitable since Adrian and the rest are puppets contrived to voice Vera Brittain's newest tract. It is all set down with dogged sincerity and dogged prose...
...funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell what Q was like...
Beaverbrook's guide to the aspiring poor was printed not in his own gigantic Express, but in an obscure London weekly, the Recorder, which failed to tell its readers that the articles had been written and published 20 years before. His smart Publisher William Brittain, once briefly a Beaver boy himself, had persuaded Lord Beaverbrook to let him reprint the articles free. Result: the Recorder's circulation jumped from 10,000 to 40,000. If no one else made a fortune out of the Beaver's advice, Publisher Brittain seemed likely...
Last week a U.S. Senator from Kentucky assured his name of a footnotelet in the pages of history. He challenged, at a moment of historic decision, the basic Allied strategy of the war, and received an unprecedented reply delivered in person by the Prime Minister of Great Brittain before a joint session of the U.S. Congress...