Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closer to the old-fashioned esthete is hollow-eyed, taciturn Maurice Sterne, hard at work in California last week on a panel for the Department of Justice. Once a bottle washer in a Manhattan saloon, he later spent many peaceful years in Italy, taught Edward Bruce, a prime advocate of...
In the deep fastness of Eastern Asia, along nebulous frontiers supposed to divide Soviet power from the forces of Empire, battle was joined as a thousand Mongol rifles cracked and light Japanese tanks whirled into action. The fighting last week came as a grim climax. Preludes have been more than...
"We rejoiced that we had outgrown the aftermath of the Civil War. Those funny figures at parade-rest look absurdly old-fashioned to us now. But do you know the most stolid and wooden and expressionless of them was in a way better sculpture than the wild things that we...
VIGILS - Siegfried Sassoon - Viking ($1.50). Of the British poets whom the War sent over the top, Siegfried Sassoon is one of the few survivors. As an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he served with such absent-minded gallantry that he was awarded the Military Cross, was recommended for the...
It is 1942. England's worst depression, beginning five years ago, had brought a second General Strike and had upped the Fascist National Volunteers to the most powerful armed body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a...