Word: inners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lanchester, Mrs. Charles Laughton). Her gentle guidance gives him a new lease on happiness, brings back some measure of prosperity. But she is excommunicated for bearing his child. Before he can marry her, she dies, leaving him to a penniless, unkempt, disreputable, lonely old age which never dulls his inner merriment or distracts his joy in paint...
Although security is undoubtedly a will-o'-the-wisp, some inner force in man drives him ever onward toward this goal. And nowhere is "security" more important and complicated than in international affairs. However intangible, there are certain controllable factors; just as in scientific experimentation. The most important of these, for Americans, is the man who occupies the Presidential chair...
HAMILTON FISH; THE INNER HISTORY OF THE GRANT ADMINISTRATION - Allan Nevins-Dodd, Mead...
...excellent choice as central figure for such a study. Unchangeable, incorruptible, with his prejudices, political views and limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History of the Grant Administration is an exhaustive, scholarly, 1,000-page volume, based on the huge manuscript diary kept by Fish and containing much unpublished material. No book for hasty readers, it is likely to impress most students as a solid historical achievement, slow-moving but not dull, a biography...
Ernest Jiinger was hailed by Nazis in Berlin last week as having perfectly caught the essence of their Kultur in his volume of essays entitled The Inner Experience of Battle. Excerpts: "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture are only maintained and spread aloft by wars. . . . Today in Germany we write poems in steel and symphonies in ferroconcrete. . . . War is the mightiest encounter of nations...