Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign diplomats who are schooled in politeness and courtesy. ... It was considered smart by some, after World War I, to be rude. Just when manners seemed to be improving, along comes your magazine, grabs Grandma Literary Digest by the seat of her inner chaps, and throws her clear out of the literary corral. Then your writers began spitting through their teeth to show how smart they were and began to splatter us with them there grammer...
...Sherif Sharaf read the Koran. In London a weary Foreign Office profanely hoped that, since Britain could spare none of her armed forces to police Iraq, a diplomatic miracle might come to pass in the able brain of Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, the new Ambassador to Iraq and a longtime inner-circle political adviser to the Iraq Government...
Well over a year has passed since the President laid down that basic principle to the inner circle of his advisers. Those months have seen the birth and death of the National Defense Advisory Commission, set up in May 1940 with an eye as much to keeping prices down as to getting armament up. They have seen the rise and eclipse of OPM, set up to still public clamor when NDAC did not seem to be delivering fast enough...
This isn't a bad skeleton, but it is so over-simplified in its development that you feel it never achieves full body. If Miss Treadwell had devoted more of her imagination to a revelation of the inner conflict between hope and defeat, and less to a chronicling of life in the San Joaquin (which can be pretty dull at times), she would have had a more successful time of it. There is a long list of excellent characterizations headed by that of the Italian truck-grower, Alan Reed. Despite its deficiencies in depth--by no means an uncommon failing...
...write, if you get A you should put your ability to work. If you don't take English A you are the man we are looking for. Under any condition, step over tomorrow night and have one on the CRIMSON while getting an inside view on the inner workings of "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily...