Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...despite their dulled protests, few U.S. citizens were pinched and most were living better, housing shortage and all, than in any other era. The national hunger for new automobiles was insatiable; in every city in the land people were paying secondhand dealers from $300 to $800 over list prices for cars which had been made "secondhand" by being driven around the block. Housewives kept on buying expensive cuts of meat. Baseball was having its biggest season...
...Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings, jeweled garters, entrancing moles on the thigh, and the neighing of palfreys, Shellabarger writes rings around the Maugham of Then...
Princeton's Bob Wolcott topped the League's pitchers with an ERA of 1.08 while Yale's Frank Quinn, who best the Crimson twice, had the best decision record with seven wins and no losses...
...trustees were unable to find a scholar of the first rank qualified for the post. Plainly, in turning to General Eisenhower, they elected to subordinate the question of learning, of the skills in education, to the more practical issues of administration. . . . It can be argued that the present era of confusion calls for just [such] stalwart virtues. . . . [But] the regrets will remain...
...Universal-International) suggests that James M. Cain and other hard-shelled melodramatists could have taken lessons from the Edwardians, and, in particular, from the works of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who wrote this story. Ivy (Joan Fontaine), a product of that placid era, is married to an impoverished wastrel (Richard Ney) who is as eager as she to live high, and climb higher, but isn't as smart about it. Ivy is carrying on with a young doctor (Patric Knowles) who isn't so very smart either. When she foresees a brighter future with rich, glamorous Herbert Marshall...