Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Marva likes to hobnob with the Negro upper crust in Manager Roxborough's palatial French Provincial house, Joe prefers the company of his old pals. A few days after he won the world's championship from Jim Braddock in 1937-while Negro society was burning wires to get him to their salons-Joe was in Detroit, sitting on a dirty curbstone, eating apples and arguing with the boys about his prowess as a softball player...
...They wagged faster because the measure had been drawn at the instance, not of meddling politicians, but of the War Department itself. It had the approval of Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson, Chief of Staff George Catlett Marshall and all the rest of the Army's top crust, with one exception. That exception was the Quartermaster General, Edmund Bristol Gregory. True to Army tradition, he said little more than that he was against...
Such was the upper-crust life in Mapleton, 1940, according to Writer Barnard, who is 29 and obviously knows his milieu and his people thoroughly. The end of the book is corny; it portrays Park Gushing, disintegrating because of wife trouble, brought to the verge of regeneration by a bad shock. But Revelry By Night is fluently readable, at times masterfully comic, and-for a first novel-a surprisingly deft study of a way of life that seems doomed to perish, as those in The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and Appointment in Samarra already have...
...play the hoary fable for its horror. They have dressed it up with overtones of Freud in which Tracy's transformation to Hyde is accompanied by symbolic montage shots of a bounding lion (the beast in Hyde); lilies (the purity of luscious Lana Turner, Jekyll's upper-crust fiancee) ; an hourglass (Jekyll's frustration). The result of this phantasmagoria is boredom...
Although it has been used for burns for hundreds of years, tannic acid may do more harm than good. For: 1) it forms a thick, hard crust, under which germs flourish; 2) it kills delicate new skin cells. The British are now turning away from tannic acid, to other methods-among them, the triple dye treatment of Dr. Aldrich...