Word: gideons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phenomenon that Mr. Brown represents. He is amused by himself when he forgets names and puts people to sleep as much as he is amused by the trepidations of the lady who is to introduce him and the belligerent attitude of husbands. He is amused by train rides and Gideon bibles, by hostesses who meet him at trains and by after-dinner bores. He is amused by cynics and by bellhops and by Mrs. Roosevelt. With a never-failing geniality he allows his own private amusement to overflow for the benefit of his readers...
...appeal. The Witnesses got into trouble before War II for refusing to salute the U.S. flag. They believe that the Biblical prophecies control world happenings, Armageddon is drawing near, and the Prophets alone will live forever. Rutherford died in a Spanish mansion he had prepared for King David, Gideon, Samson, other Biblical luminaries. He landscaped it with palm and olive trees "so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come...
...Court cheroots and an unfinished manuscript in his luggage. Completed in the pauses of a strenuous lecture tour and now put forth as something resembling a novel, Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur...