Word: eras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sent The Wreck of the Deutschland to his young friend, Poet Robert Bridges, who carefully pasted the epic into an album. There it remained for 40 years, until publication of Hopkins' collected works brought the long-dead Jesuit acclaim as one of the most remarkable poets of his era...
...forever being backed in & out of the White House elevator by one or all of Teddy's four sons and two daughters. The youngsters roller skated on the shiny hardwood floors, burrowed through attics and ceilings, wobbled all over the White House on stilts. This was the era of the Strenuous Life, and the Roosevelt children lived...
...Leopold Schwarzschild, a German Jew who once was also a German idealist and democrat. The book that gripped Winston Churchill is World in Trance, a burning, raging indictment of the Versailles era - "years of lofty dreaming and low demagogy . . . the era of the empty phrase . . . the age of complacency . . . the years of self-destruction." When the book was published in 1943, it got almost no notice. But the book and its current sequel, Primer of the Coming World (Knopf; $3), were news last week because...
...deserving democrats; the British, playing balance-of-power politics and encouraging a strong, pre-Hitler Germany; the assorted liberals, radicals, plain men of good will who trusted the Weimar Republic - all these, says Schwarzschild, were members of Germany's "foreign legions," and their illusion was part of the era's tragic foolery...
...West Coast came to the melancholy end of a shipbuilding era last week. In Henry J. Kaiser's record-holding Richmond Shipbuilding Corp. Yard No. 2 in California, the S.S. Benjamin Warner (named after the father of Hollywood's Warner brothers) slid into San Francisco Bay. It was the 1,147th Liberty ship launched on the West Coast-and the last...