Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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People in the U. S. quickly learned that neither Congress nor President has the final definition of "materials of war." As it did in the first World War, to the vexation of the U. S., Great Britain declared almost every conceivable necessity of life in wartime to be contraband and therefore subject to blockade (see p. 22), making paperwork of the Neutrality Act's precise delineations between military and non-military materials...
Kenneth Clark does not press profoundly into the conflicts of da Vinci's character. But he is often suggestive, as when he says that Leonardo's restless versatility, which in later life kept him busy experimenting with grandiose and unpractical engineering projects when he should have been painting, was "a disease of the will similar to that which ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque...
...Edward ("Eddie") Marsh knows as many such stories as there were incredible characters in preWar, bilingual British society. In A Number of People he strings them along on the bright, thin thread of his own life story with all the wit, charm, and intimate malice of a puckish British Proust. Unlike Proust, Marsh seldom sees through his irascible, Latinizing, fox-hunting dukes and musical, horsey, but absent-minded duchesses, although their snobbishness often makes him wince...
...physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared in an earthly orphanage, he grew to manhood, felt his oats, dedicated his life to helping those in need. In the eight months of his existence as a daily comic-strip character, Superman...
...Cleaned up a corrupt city (by tearing the wings off the politicalboss's airplane); 2) rescued a pretty female reporter (by catching her in mid-air); 3) saved the life of a beautiful foreign princess (by sinking a submarine singlehanded) ; 4) foiled a plot on a king's life (by braining a bombster with a camera...