Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possessing, corporeally, just hands, feet, and a face." In 1915 they record that Sinclair Lowis, then reading for Doran Co., rejected "The Cream of the Jest", "because the general public simply cannot be induced to buy novels about unattractive and ignoble people." They comment in passing upon the era of the twenties, when "we writing persons, upon both sides, fought out, in our books, our magazines, and our newspapers, a fine, rough-and-tumble game which we high-heartedly called a literary movement...
PROFESSOR SANTAYANA, publishing his first novel at seventy-two, has electrified the literary world. In feature reviews in the New York Times, Herald-Tribune, the New Yorker and Time, his book The Last Puritan, was fervently acclaimed as one of the greatest accomplishments of the contemporary era. For a fuller and more authoritative criticism than the Bookshelf can possibly provide the reader is referred to these reviews,--especially to Ellen Glasgow's-in the Herald-Tribune...
...have witnessed a great war...our sense of values has changed considerably--ours is the mechanical age and the era of mass education--idealists are tolerated but not believed (and here he looked towards the four-poster where the Vagabond was sitting) but, my friends I am happy to say that despite our materialistic way of things our Alice is just as real today as are the dreams of children. It is therefore fitting that we remember Mr. Carroll today who has brought such a bit of beauty to our lives so often all too drab...
...same number of seats, and that the balance of power will be held by the militarists' small and comparatively new Showakai Party. Although not exactly translatable, Showakai is a Japanese word strongly implying that it is the Party's divinely appointed duty to usher in a New Era. With his eye on the New Era, Vice Admiral Kenkichi Takahashi, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Combined Fleets, said last week: "It is likely that Japan's economic advance in Manchukuo soon will reach its limits, and, therefore, the Empire's future commercial expansion must be directed...
Madagascar also produces the little fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox), a very aggressive, weasel-like kind of civet, remarkable as the relict of another era...