Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEATH OF THE HEART-Elizabeth Bowen-Knopf...
Russia's birth rate is artificially stimulated by long northern nights, a ban on abortions (abortion was legal in Russia from 1920-36) and cash prizes for prolific mothers. Her death rate is artificially stimulated by purges, famines and Manchukuoan border incidents. What the balance is will now be determined.* Dictator Stalin believes that there are 3,500,000 new Russians every year. Sent out last week to verify this were 400,000 census takers, armed with 16 questions apiece, conveyed by reindeer, camels, sleds cars, airplanes...
...strain under the cold, fishy stare of critics. For the critics, opening night means running, sometimes before the show is over, back to their typewriters. For authors, after squirming in a seat at the rear of the house or wandering backstage with a brandy bottle, it means keeping a death watch until 4 a.m., when the papers come...
...with Walter Sherman Gifford, president of both American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and New York's Charity Organization Society. Last week 37-year-old Barklie Henry was elected a member of A. T. & T.'s 19-man board of directors, filling the vacancy created last fall by the death of Edward D. Duffield, president of Prudential Insurance...
...appears likely, the death of The Criterion marks the end of a post-War literary epoch, then Editor Eliot's last words to his readers may well stand as that epoch's classic obituary. At the beginning of the depression, he records, "The 'European mind,' which one had mistakenly thought might be renewed and fortified, disappeared from view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very...