Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conversion (from Eton-schooled playboy to the sugar daddy of New Deal journalism) came with the help of Manhattan's famed psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Zilboorg. But Zilboorg and the pre-Zilboorg era of riding to hounds get no mention in this partly autobiographical book. Field's immense fortune (estimated at $168 million) is dismissed quickly as "the chance of inheritance." But he explains why his New Dealing journalistic twins-Manhattan's adless, experimental PM, and Chicago's unexperimental, ad-crammed Sun-turned out so unalike...
...question. To the tantalizing riddle of literary genius she has no answer, but she has brought together a fascinating collection of facts that show clearly the fantastically divided nature of the deacon who was equally a rigid, exemplary don and perhaps the most brilliant eccentric of his era...
...streets were jammed for hours past midnight by drunks who had downed too many too fast, by soberer folks who thought they had no place else to go. Speakeasies began to spring up, and Manhattan's policemen began to talk worriedly of the return of the Prohibition era's clip-joints...
There were other signs last week that a new era in Navy public relations may be at hand...
Edouard Daladier, barrel-chested, bull-necked Munich era Premier of France, wrote from internment in Germany that he was well...