Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf, formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one of its severest winters on record. Its hillsides were blanketed with wet snow, its streams and rivers jammed with thawing ice. The soil was deep-frozen, rock-hard. . The melting rains coursed off the Appalachian hillsides as if they had been sloping tin roofs. Monstrously gorged rivers roared like millraces, burst their narrow channels. From Maine to Kentucky a vast, swirling chaos enveloped the valley towns and cities...
...Europe 1,000,000 soldiers, not to mention his 300,000 in Africa. In London II Duce's envoy, Dino Grandi, kept saying: "Now is the time to settle everything" - i.e., to make a Vansittart Ethiopian peace and a Vansittart German peace. The august London Times raised its deep voice in harmony with this attitude...
...dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat c'est moi. Immediately the Peace Conference gave fledgling Dictator Franco a deep nudge in the ribs by intimating that they had previously intended to recognize his Government because they had understood it was going to be democratic...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...
...THEY REVELED - Philip Wylie - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Nine pseudo-people go through a summer of bright marital exchanges, puzzled drinking, and Connecticut's best boredom. NOT TOO NARROW . . . NOT TOO DEEP - Richard Sale - Simon & Schuster ($2). What might happen if Charles Rann Kennedy's Servant in the House were put into Stephen Crane's Open Boat with ten escaped convicts. The result will not even please Buchmanites...