Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leadville, the silver boom slowed and then collapsed. "Haw" Tabor died destitute in a Denver hotel he had built. But Colorado and Boettcher prospered. Boettcher branched out into mines, land, railroads, cattle, banks. He gave generously of his millions, pinched pennies for himself. His son Claude† took over management of his enterprises, built a new fortune upon...
...Office of Education has little to do with setting educational policies. Its main job is compiling bales of statistics. It also supervises the spending of federal funds by land-grant colleges and vocational schools, and sponsors an interminable round of education conferences. Its uniformly dull publications tread warily between the controversies. Most U.S. educators prefer it that...
Vile Bodies orchestrated the gay dance of death of Mayfair's Bright Young Things between the wars. Readers were somewhat taken aback by the ferocity of the ending: the unheroic hero stands in the total blackness of the next war's no-man's-land, waiting to toss his Huxdane-Halley bacterial bomb and infect the enemy with leprosy. Black Mischief was a grim guffaw at the efforts of an Oxford-trained black emperor to apply the notions of liberalism, progress, international uplift and birth control to a country as barbaric as Ethiopia. Scoop, the most rollicking...
Perverse Innocence. In 1928, Evelyn (pronounced Evil in) Arthur St. John Waugh (rhymes with raw) leaped, like a literary commando, out of nowhere and, establishing a beachhead in that dismal waste land which Poet T. S. Eliot had charted six years before, began to commit merry mayhem on the comic muse...
Sometimes the consequence is painful. There is the book whose title was taken from a line in T. S. Eliot's Waste Land: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." A Handful of Dust tells about a dull Englishman whose dedicated obsession is to retrieve from the waste of time and progress the hideous country house which is his real love. His wife betrays him with a cheap social hanger-on who is not even physically attractive. His son & heir is killed. To save his sanity, the man betrayed by life & death goes abroad. In South...