Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Millions of Americans, who had almost forgotten Al Smith the politician, remembered him as a symbol of a wonderful era-the years of the never-ending bull market, of the hip flask, of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Dempsey fights. Al Smith's hoarse and genial East Side voice, his chewed cigar, his violent pajamas and his rasping expletive, "Baloney!" belonged to the fabulous '20s as much as It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'. He was against the Volstead Act; and in the '20s the U.S. almost elected him its President...
PHANTOM VICTORY-Erwin Lessner-Putnam ($2.50). "The curtain falls," said the German chief of staff to the assembled generals, "but the play is not over. . . . The National Socialist era ... was just an episode in the life of our nation. . . . You will discard your uniforms, [but] may I add that politics is a continuation of war by other means...
...Wilson" will stand for many years a vigorous documentary screen biography of a great American. It is not a motion picture with a message, but rather the vivid and moving story of an important President. Darryl Zanuck shows a quiet man of ideals struggling in a stormy era of materialism and comes forth with inspiring Americana...
...longtime associate editor of Harriet Monroe's Poetry: A Magazine of Verse; of cancer; in Chicago. A member of Chicago's Hammond -piano -manufacturing family, genteel, bespectacled Miss Tietjens was a World War I correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, wrote vers libre in the school and era of the late Amy Lowell...
...peeves. His mind's eye filled with tall clipper ships crowding on sail on the China run, with silks and sandalwood and opium, gongs and the firebreath of dragons. In New York and Boston libraries he delved long in old tomes: Lawrence Kearny, Sailor Diplomat; The Clipper Ship Era; The Opium Trade; The Opium Clipper. Could Peg be softening up, seeking escape from the hateful present? Last week, in one of his last columns for Scripps-Howard, came the answer...