Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag after all. For anyone who likes travel books and for many who do not, Brazilian Adventure will be a refreshingly new departure. Author Fleming admits in his foreword that his book differs "from most books about expeditions . . . also from most books about the interior of Brazil. It differs in being throughout strictly truthful. . . . The hardships and privations which we were called on to endure were of a very minor order, the dangers which we ran were considerably less...
...Editorial Foreword, commencing the magazine, deserves its leading position, As its title, "Gnothi Seauton," would lead one to fear, it has a faint aura of uplift and exhortation clinging to its verbal draperies. But this aura is indeed too faint to bother any but the most far-fetched nuanciren; if one disregard it, the discussion appears as an apt and thoughtful one. It is arranged around two quotations from Emerson: "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind," and also, "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." These...
Everyman, published in London, edited by Major Francis Yeats-Brown (The Lives of a Bengal Lancer), calls itself a "World News Weekly," copies TIME'S picture captions, attempts condensation, but otherwise little resembles TIME. A foreword to the first issue says "People want news rather than opinions. . . . We are against the barren doctrines of Socialism. Communism and class-war." In addition to news, Everyman contains a department of chatty miscellany called "This Cockeyed World," articles by Bertrand Russell, Andre Maurois, Elinor Glyn. Chief backers of Everyman are Publisher Sir John Evelyn Leslie Wrench, chairman and joint editor...
...foreword to the catalog Dr. Alfred Frankfurter expressed it more delicately: "The personal nature of a child and the artistic talent of a great actor, of a stupendous impersonator...
...foreword which comes last, Author Laing tells how near he has kept to the facts he dug out of almost a thousand books; tells readers where they may see a scale model of the Sea Witch (at the Museum of the City of New York), warns them they will find her figurehead no likeness of beautiful Mary Murray, but a gilded dragon...