Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continent of Asia, a policy which violates not only the Nine-Power Treaty of 1921, but other treaty obligations as well. Diplomatists are expressing shocked surprise at this, a state of affairs which is either a tribute to their innocent incompetence, or to their mendacious abilities. To the historian, this desire has been common knowledge for at least a decade, but, of course, diplomatists are unsophisticated folk...
...Feuchtwangcr -Viking ($2.50). One result of the Nazis' anti-Semite campaign has been to bring Historical-Novelist Feuchtwanger up to date. His best book, Power, was set in the 18th Century, and though Success was a contemporary record it was written from the backward-looking vantage of an historian. But in The Oppermanns Author Feuchtwanger no longer writes as a cool observer of barbarous times but as a member of an injured race. This story of what has been happening to the Jews in Germany will perhaps be taken by Nazi-sympathizers as special pleading. Plain readers will rate...
...blended. So is Scots dialect. A blend not only of pungent Scots dialect and plain English but of symphony and satire, low comedy and drama that sometimes aspires to the tragic, Cloud Howe is a malty, fairly intoxicating brew. Author ''Lewis Grassic Gibbon" (J. Leslie Mitchell, British historian and archeologist) has already written one book about his heroine (Sunset Song), will write one more, but Cloud Howe stands sturdily enough alone...
...here, Samuel E. Morison, official Harvard historian, explained to the CRIMSON, is where the man in the street goes wrong. It was decided by historians, he says, that the college dates from the time of the first official charter or action. In a footnote to his history of the University now in preparation, he says, "Colleges of the British Isles and Latin America date their foundation from the first charter, papal bull or formal act authorizing the institution; for it is nearly impossible to ascertain the dates of breaking ground for the first building or of first receiving scholars...
...report had not yet been submitted to Governor Ely, and that whatever information the Traveller possessed on its contents came from "persons in the State House close to the Hurley probe." When it had retreated safely into the inner pages, the Traveller became increasingly generous and increasingly reserved; the historian's "ut fertur" appeared, all statements were pegged on to "competent observers", and learned "on good authority." In other words, the Traveller must dilute its vitriol; but holds which are barred in six point type are legalized in ninety six point, where they may be expected to do the most...