Word: cometted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon, The Food of the Gods, In the Days of the Comet} had been reissued, looked forward to recapturing the excitement of their first reading...
...other half of the program is taken up by a very dull portrayal of what would probably happen if a great comet struck the earth...
Watchers of the U. S. skies last week reported no comet or other celestial portent. In Manhattan no showers of ticker-tape blossomed from Broadway office windows, no welcoming committee packed the steps of City Hall. No call to nation-wide thanksgiving was sounded by Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler. No overt celebration marked the day with red. Yet many a wide-awake modern-minded citizen knew he had seen literary history pass another milestone. For last week a much-enduring traveler, world-famed but long an outcast, landed safe and sound on U. S. shores. His name was Ulysses...
...same as that led until last week by Albert Sarraut and previously by Edouard Daladier (see p. 17). In the Chautemps Cabinet, M. Sarraut returned to the Naval Ministry he held under Premier Daladier, M. Daladier kept the War Ministry he held under Premier Sarraut and that shaggy-maned comet of the Paris bar, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, continued to shine as Foreign Minister...
...explosive, moon-faced salesman. Together they ran, in a belligerently unorthodox manner, Grigsby-Grunow Co., makers of Majestic radios and electric iceboxes. Unlike most makers of radios and electric refrigerators, they made money hand over fist. In the clear blue firmament of 1929, Grigsby-Grunow stock was a comet...