Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...service to offer. No buyer of materials, like Russia's Amtorg, the Japan Foreign Trade Bureau proposed to act as a two-way middleman: not only to help Japanese dealers find markets in the U. S., but to help U. S. merchants sell in Japan. This sounded good, and it was as good an excuse as any for Japan to get part of her old pal Germany's trade with...
...only competitor still free to bid against the U. S. for the market is Japan, and the U. S. has a big lead on her. For not only has the U. S. long since entrenched itself as the No. 1 Latin American trader, but Cordell Hull's Good Neighbor policy and reciprocal trade agreements have begun to persuade Latin America to believe that Dollar Diplomacy is dead...
...Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp., where wax-mustached Conductor Sir Adrian Boult solemnly clucked: "The BBC contemplates no ban on any musical work by reason of its composer's nationality. BBC's concern is to provide...
...bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death and deathly stupidity that moved...
...inheritance, some excellent war talk is heard from, among others, an aged and resigned Italian prince. None of it is more interesting than the implication of the book itself: that the pre-1914 ideals of scientific truth and romantic honor, handed on to David in his father's good English blood, made him an unwelcome guest in the period between wars. Richard Aldington's bright, reckless style has improved since Death of a Hero, his epigrams are neater (though subject to an appalling tendency to show off his Greek), but his grasp of real experience is weaker...