Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bishop William T. Manning, at work at 82 on his reminiscences of the past 45 years. The period he enjoyed, he observed, witnessed "the coming of the automobile . . . aviation, the two most terrible wars this world has ever known . . . the United Nations . . . the atomic age." His verdict on the era: "an interesting...
...sport fan, a connoisseur of antique films, or a man with a lot of patience. Most stations telecast only four hours a day. With some exceptions, their programs are at the level of movies in the heyday of the Keystone Cops, or of radio in the era when fans stayed up all night to hear Pittsburgh...
Sally (music by Jerome Kern; lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse and Clifford Grey; book by Guy Bolton; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. and William Berney) constitutes almost as aromatic a memory of the Ziegfeld era as the Follies themselves. Anyone seeing it on Broadway last week must have guessed, if he did not know, that it had once been a great hit (1920-35). But though Sally still has an air, it shows...
Died. Erskine Gwynne, 49, dilettante Paris publisher of the expatriate era; after long illness; in Manhattan. A great-nephew of the late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, he brought out the Paris Boulevardier in 1927, attracted to the magazine such contributors as Michael Arlen, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway...
...characteristic rolling prose, at once dignified, belligerent and unexpectedly twinkling, Churchill has told (in Vol. I) of the era of appeasement between the wars, sharpening the drama of the history with behind-the-scenes anecdotes, sharp cameos of those in the center of the stage, and pithy summings-up-generalizations like a bold sweeping together of muscular arms. In telling how Nazi Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop had been entertained at No. 10 Downing Street the day Austria was invaded by the Nazis, Churchill's finis to the episode is like an ax-stroke: "This was the last time...