Word: doomsdayers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...moments before-as the moon's age is reckoned-such an event would have caused cowering, ululations and doomsday prophecies among mankind. But last week, instead of scurrying into caves or cellars, mankind made merry and flocked to the totality belt for observation, lay and scientific. In the British Isles there were eclipse houseparties and a national holiday. Scandinavians, accustomed to staying up late at this season of the midnight sun, redoubled their nocturnal festivities to view a sight that will not again be seen by most of Europe until 1961, by England until...
Early one morning at the front door of her scrawny house, Mary Viner finds not the red-nosed milk boy but Arnold Furze, her neighbor of Doomsday Farm. Like most of Deeping's figures of earth, Furze achieves that balance between rusticity and refinement which is sometimes considered the ideal embodiment of the English character. To Mary it seems that the rusticity outweighs the refinement. Still, she loves him, agrees to marry him. But as they plan for a new sink at Doomsday and a pump to supply water for Mary's dishwashing, she loses heart. In despair she takes...
...Significance. Hardy first planted the literary flag in the rural turf of England. Since then Sheila Kaye-Smith, T. F. Powys and many another have followed him. Doomsday, in Sussex, most resembles Miss Kaye-Smith's work...
...DOOMSDAY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England...
...Fiction DOOMSDAY - Warwick Deeping* - Knopf ($2.50). A Pandora of rural England. TOMORROW MORNING - Anne Parish - Harper ($2). A mother's sacrifice; tears, smiles, aspiration. TAR: A MIDWEST CHILDHOOD - Sherwood Anderson - Boni & Liveright ($3). A Huckleberry Finn in lower Ohio. THE PLUTOCRAT - Booth Tarking ton - Doubleday, Page ($2). An Illinois Caesar visits Carthage. CHILDREN OF THE MORNING - W. L. George- Putnam ($2). What became of 59 children stranded on a desert island. EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE - Felix Riesenberg - Har court, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones. I'LL HAVE A FINE FUNERAL - Pierre La Maziere - Brentano...