Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blandings Builds His Dream House. Gary Grant and Myrna Loy fall among contractors (TIME, April...
...hour raise which a fact-finding board had recommended as a fair settlement. Their demands were louder than ever now because, they said, even while they had been arguing, the cost of living had gone up. The conductors and trainmen, who had accepted the 15½? increase last fall, were also whistling down the track again. They had decided that the time had come to demand another 25% boost...
Over the Moon. The Department of Agriculture predicted that meat prices, which hit a new high last month (295% of the 1909-14 average), would go even higher this summer and fall. Reasons: 1) a seasonal decline in the already low rate of production, 2) an "unusually strong" demand due to high consumer income...
Somewhat against its better judgment, Chapman & Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher without qualifications in one of fiction's most fascinating schools for backward children. He was on the point of marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste...
...perfectly manipulated anarchy of Decline and Fall, at once playful and lethal, was peopled with a rout of sinister caricatures tagged with unforgettable names (Waugh is probably the most inspired creator of synthetic surnames since Charles Dickens). There were Lady Circumference and her numskull son, little Lord Tangent; Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde (later Lady Margot Metroland) and her son, Peter Pastmaster; Sir Alastair Digby-Vaine-Trumpington and Viola Chasm. This glittering, blandly selfish, pretentiously stupid upper-class riffraff was to romp through most of Waugh's later books, sharing their futile power for pointless and appalling mischief with such later...