Word: grinding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because they could take it as one more indication of degenerate capitalist aristocracy, Reds might delight in Henry de Montherlant's portrait of two eccentrics. Tycoons would find it had little connection with real life as they know it. But readers with no axe to grind and no grindstone to rest their noses on will be entertained, amused and touched by Perish in Their Pride. Though a study in human eccentricity (and French eccentricity at that), it was concentric with a more perfectly rounded humanity. Author Montherlant did not make caricatures of his creatures, grotesques in their own right...
...Grind...
What is the general character of the typical Prize Fellow? It has been proven that he is not a grind, but interested in extra curricular activities...
Fellow 12., certainly not a grind; Fellow 13., reasonably intelligent, but scarcely brilliant . . . grave sense of humor; Fellow 14., intellectually on his toes, confirmed pacifist, sees through things easily; Fellow 15., not completely submerged in studies...
...what we have done to the Communists said to have burned down our Reichstag, but what would those same professors say if Communists burned down Oxford? To anyone who knows Putzy the whole matter was plainly one of insufficient smelling salts, but British Justice was obliged to grind this Nazi grist exceeding small. The eminent King's Counsel for the Daily Express, Sir Patrick Hastings, cross-examined Dr. Hanfstaengl last week with a view to adducing that his language is often intemperate. "I am suggesting to you," purred Sir Patrick, "that directly people asked you questions about Communists...