Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Misery's Nurses. The face of UNRRA in the displaced persons camps of Upper Bavaria was a smiling, 36-year-old Bronx Negro, Ernest C. Grigg, veteran of city and federal social-service agencies. He had won the confidence of these strange latter-day slaves, some of whom still resisted moving into larger camp quarters, preferring to crowd together in their old, small barracks for protection against the nightmares Hitler had left them. Grigg and his aides were slowly preparing them for a return to the world...
Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton: "The great amount of debt we bring out of the war is indeed a strange reward for all we in this island did and suffered." Ernest Bevin frankly compared the U.S. to "a money lender." Raged Conservative Robert Boothby: "This is our economic Munich." Laborite Norman Smith chimed in that the U.S. was treating Britain as a defeated enemy forced to accept the victor's terms...
...Paris. The Idahoan with the glittering eye and the positive manner ranged magnificently from salon to bordello, flaunting his cape and stick and Byronic collars, spitting critical fire, pinching the ladies and wagging his fierce red whiskers. He grew as famous as his neighbors, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. By the time he was 40 he had written 31 books. The stream of poetry, prose and French and Chinese translations swelled to a torrent. Then, the early '30s, Ezra Pound stepped abruptly out of his field...
Bulky, bossy Ernest Bevin, British to the bone, considers himself more of a proletarian than Molotov. Last week Laborite Bevin became the first official spokesman of a great power to advocate a world assembly elected directly by the peoples, not appointed by their governments...
...Ernest Hemingway, whose first marriage lasted nearly six years, his second thirteen, filed suit for a Havana divorce after a five-year stretch with Writer (The Trouble I've Seen) Martha Gellhorn...