Word: cle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professorial excitement over the vowel sounds ("I scarcely knew what a vowel was") in his Innisfree. He talked to Shaw and Kropotkin and William Morris at Kelmscott House; to Arthur Symons and Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson and Edmund Dulac-the "tragic generation" of the fin-de-siècle-at the Rhymers' Club; to John Todhunter and the intense young clerks of the Southwark Irish Society...
...over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth of a new century would be a cleansing and a rebirth...
...Berlin the reaction was more thoughtful. The Foreign Office periodical Berlin-Rome-Tokyo published a long arti cle solemnly denying that its Axis planned to attack the U. S.. as solemnly accused the U. S. of trying to provoke an attack. "This is the hour when the Three-Power Pact of Berlin has found its renewed, final justification as a powerful instrument of common defense against aggression," wrote Berlin-Rome-Tokyo. "Whoever feels himself affected . . . has aggressive intentions. Nor does President Roosevelt make any concealment of these intentions. His only worry is that the nations of the Three-Power...