Word: infernale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a brilliant set piece, Romains leads him into the deafening shadows of Manhattan's Chatham Square, for an infernal glimpse of the U.S. "Middle Ages." Later, in "the hypnotic rhythm" of a Parkway drive to Jones Beach, they move on a road so magnificently designed that it makes...
Even the steel frames of factories and shipways now abuilding are quietly welded together. Silenced for good is the awful din of the structural riveter who clattered up against the U.S. sky in the '20s, a splendid symbol and at the same time an infernal nuisance.
For it Author Chamberlin finds four reasons: 1) the spread of industrialism; 2) the growth of population due to the progress of science and medicine; 3) inequalities of wealth between classes and between nations; 4) and "most important," the inability of "collective human intelligence and good will" to cope with...
The Dynamiter. As a military attache in Mexico, the young Junker became an eager student of the Mexican revolution. He kept the German War Ministry informed on just how the revolutionists blew up railway trains-"by burying dynamite beneath the line itself. . . . Infernal machines, so far as I know, have...
He didn't want to leave this life, he wasn't ready to leave yet. There was something about getting back to ivy-covered halls and the usual confusion about study cards, registration and first class meetings which stirred his indifference and made him wish that this was the way...