Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the best known of the many eminent German scholars who have come to the United States as political exiles, Dr. Mann was forced to leave his native land, in the summer of 1933. shortly after Hitler's rise to power. His unpopularity with the Nazis was attributed both to his open dislike for political dictatorship and to the fact that he is married to a German Jewess...
...spikes project inward like teeth. Two or three sensitive hairs serve as a trigger mechanism. When an insect touches these, the lobes snap together, the spikes meshing to prevent escape. Then the leaf, says Miss Prior, "is converted into a virtual stomach and the glands on the upper surface . . . come into action until all the soft parts of the prey are liquefied...
Died. Hirosi Saito, 52, onetime (1934-38) Japanese Ambassador to the U. S.; of tuberculosis; in Washington. A gay little man whose wife likened him to a tireless, leaping carp, Ambassador Saito was the youngest, most popular Japanese Ambassador ever to come to Washington. After the sinking of the Panay, which he called a "shocking blunder," he took the unprecedented course of apologizing over the radio, canceled all engagements, cried: "I'm in the doghouse...
...decent shelter for the head. One might expect Author Canfield, therefore, to be impervious to literary fashion as well. But so many tucks, ribbons and feathers have been incorporated into the novel since she last wrote one (Bonfire, 1933), that she has felt it necessary to come up to date. The result sits on her head at a rakish angle, tapers to a giddy point. The angle: fascism is dangerous. The point: it can't happen here. The effect: distinctly overdressed...
...consequence of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is that the prizewinner's next books come in for much severer criticism. If any Nobel Prizewinner stands to escape such hardening of the public heart, it is Pearl Buck. With her usual unpretentious candor, she was the first to admit that the Nobel Prize award honored her beyond her deserts. "That's ridiculous," she said when she heard the news. "It should have gone to Dreiser...