Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bookshops in both towns proclaim in gigantic letters across their windows that no one should miss reading Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came, "a book about indestructible India." No other books seemed to be advertised. Now this story is written in a strongly anti-British vein. I enjoyed reading it very much, but twice I remember hurling it to the ground with rage at its prejudice, injustice and ignorance. Goebbels is running this India racket, I am certain of it. Why should at least three questions about India be asked at every one of Duff's lectures...
...didn't have any other place to go besides Holly-wood, where it was enthusiastically hailed as a proper vehicle for you know who. It deals with boarding houses and mortgages and saving the old place by opening up a night club, and it was written by Louis Bromfield, who makes a lot of money writing about such things and who gave us "The Rains Came...