Word: lost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three world citizens were sitting in the sunny Café de Flore, the shrine of Left Bank Bohemia, feeling quite sorry for themselves. After the pleasant splash that First World Citizen Garry Davis had made last winter (TIME, Jan. 10), the world seemed to have lost interest in the movement that was designed to unite it in peace...
...very hard to explain how you can suddenly become a painter, especially for me-I talk like a Spanish cow-but my life absolutely changed from that minute. I started painting 12 and 15 hours a day. I never went to the cafés; I lost all my friends. When the war started I thought, 'Let the bombs fall. They won't fall on me; I have too much work...
Died. Franz von Rintelen, 72, World War I master saboteur and head of the German spy network operating from New York; in London. Bald, dashing Prussian Captain von Rintelen came to the U.S. in 1915 with $500,000 and instructions to prevent munitions from reaching the Allies. He lost much of the money playing the stockmarket, but managed to carry out his orders: 32 Allied ships were damaged or sunk when incendiary time-bombs exploded in their holds. Responsible for a wave of dock strikes and the Black Tom explosion (and suspected of planning the sinking of the Lusitania), Rintelen...
...reason for this is that in all her twelve novels, Ivy Compton-Burnett has never tried to tell a convincing story. With her, any old melodrama (even including secret drawers, lost wills, fantastic skeletons in impeccable family closets) passes for plot; all Novelist Compton-Burnett needs is the chance to reveal what she is really interested in revealing-the vices, virtues and idiosyncrasies of human behavior. To this end, too, the people in her novels talk all the time but never talk naturally: unlike real people they always say just what they think, and mean just what they say; when...
Robin Hoodwinked. In Chicago, confronted by an armed robber, Mrs. Josephine Halper burst into tears and wailed: "I need bread and he asks me for money!", wheedled a dollar from the outlaw and gave it to her son who promptly lost it in a bingo game...