Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wodehouse's second novel since the war has all the nicely timed plotting and mock style of its many predecessors; its world, as usual, is a world all its own. Blandings Castle is the scene; present are Lord Emsworth, who resembles a heap of old clothes in the moonlight, his prize pig, his battle-ax of a sister and various featherbrained members of a younger generation intent on strategies of love. Full Moon lacks the fresh epithets and fruity exuberance of Wodehouse's most inventive stories, but its nitwitticisms will satisfy the addicted...
...block that seemed just a hopeless heap of rubble, we saw one evening a wisp of smoke curling upwards. We picked our way down a broken flight of steps and knocked at a battered wooden door. A woman opened it and urged us to enter. In a room 12 ft. by 16 ft. we found a minor miracle of family planning. Seven people lived, cooked, ate and slept in this space, whose only privacy was a tiny curtained cubicle behind a big brick Russian stove, on top of which a boy slept at night. The room, a salvaged...
...genuine sense, though very different from today's existentialists. ... [He] gave prudence and will their important and proper place. Modern existentialists have tried to reach conclusions without prudence and without will. They have ignored the spirituality behind the sublime cry of Job; they have remembered only the dung heap whereon Job lay. If we will see true existentialism, we must look for it in Saint Thomas...
Thus reassured, the President headed back to the White House to face his new crises. On the top of the heap: conferences on the phone strike and Henry Wallace's latest sound-off (see FOREIGN RELATIONS...
...Shanghai, prices are out of sight; dollars must be exchanged into Chinese at 1 to 12,000 (less 3% Government Bank commission), and unspent Chinese dollars cannot be changed back. Manila is still a rubble heap. Hong Kong is nearer normal than any Far Eastern city. Prices are well controlled. A hotel room costs only $2 to $3 a person. Singapore is smellier, more overcrowded than ever. But the famed Raffles Hotel is open again to tourists-although they may find it too quaint to be comfortable...