Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central figures are the large Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers, who lose their 40-acre farm to the bankers, sell their possessions for $18 to gyp agents, buy an ancient jalopy for $75 from racketeers, head out on Highway 66 for the land of plenty promised in a come-on California handbill. With them - the 13th passenger -goes lanky, philosophizing Preacher Casy, hillbilly Moses turned rustic socialist. Hero of the Joads is tall, homely son Tom, a paroled convict. Heroine is Ma Joad, strong, patient, dreaming of "a white house with oranges growin' around...
...HOLY TERROR-H. G. Wells-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). Most of H. G. Wells's 80 books have pictured the shape of things to come; if nobody knows what the future holds, it is not his fault. In The Holy Terror he sees the same old Wellsian future: the final World War, a world dictatorship, and at last, off in the misty distance, the World State. Many an oldster bores mankind about the past; in The Holy Terror, Wells manages to be dull about things that have not even happened...
...there are there courses open to America today. She can state her neutrality, and stay out of the next war; or state her neutrality and enter the war--although this is unlikely now. "However," he said, "more good will be done by making it appear that she actually will come...
Considered an authority on communism and fascism, Russell declared that there is "no danger whatever from communism in America, Fascism, however, may come from the big-business interests...
...firm belief of the proponents of the plan that its advantages are such that Yale will soon come to adopt the game sort of sports set-up for the future. Until then, in the individual sports, the Harvard all-House teams will be at an advantage over the champion Yale House team and on close to an equal plane with these individual sports in which Yale has no House team, while in the team sports Harvard will be at a disadvantage in meeting the Eli soccer, lacrosse and rugby regular outfits and on the same plane in the others...