Word: hellish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ireland's last and most successful rebellion (1919-21), they call it, with resigned racial euphemism, "the trouble." Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...
...title poem, like many a Jeffers narrative, starts off in realistic-novel style, plods up into high but hellish places where the wind blows too strong for realism. On a drunken picnic at the seashore Lance caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement...
...hellish storms of dictatorship may roar and rage outside our cloistered Yard, but Harvard shall have its democracy again. An awesome member of the Faculty, who should have known better, was heard to rejoice at the ending of "tyranny, damned tyranny," with the coming of the Conant regime. Were only all dictators as benevolent and enlightened as Adolf Lorenzo Lowell...
Uptown--"Farewell to Arms." A faithful version of Ernest Hemingway's story of love and war in the Trentino, with the galky Gary and the hellish Helen...
...laboring mightily at social settlement work in Manhattan she let herself fall in love with a worthless neurotic. Of him she was soon rid, suffering an abortion rather than bear his child. After a brief interlude as charitarian to a publicity-loving millionairess, Ann attacked penology, spent 14 hellish months as a matron in a Southern penitentiary. Conditions there and her helplessness to do anything lasting about them filled her with a horror of prisons, a grim determination to do what she could. The first shadow of middle age found her in charge of a model woman's prison...