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...fate was merciless to me when it threw me into this maelstrom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Gale of the World | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...always, topicality has been the keynote; a glance backard at 22 issues of Volume CXVI conjures up a picture of the University in the post-war maelstrom just as certainly as the 1873 pages paint us portraits of young men with Paris Garters and Fine Clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pump-Primings | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

There were raccoon coats with built-in hip flasks, plaid-seated convertibles, plenty of Canadian Club; Vag was mentally immersed in a maelstrom of all night parties and lost weekends. He saw the crowds and colors of November Saturday afternoons and smelled the mixed aroma of burning leaves, Chanel, and rye hovering over Soldiers Field. Pretty girls there would be by the score, by the six dozen--the "golden girls." The bright lights and gay scenes revolved in perfect time to the Six Little Tailors, and for once, Vag smiled at the jingle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/7/1946 | See Source »

...jungles. Result: he became a bigger social success. "Mr. Ryder," the best critics agreed (in one of Waugh's inimitable parodies of claptrap), "rises like a young trout to the hypodermic injection of a new culture . . . focussing the frankly traditional battery of his elegance and erudition on the maelstrom of barbarism. . . . Mr. Ryder has. found himself." But Anthony Blanche could not be fooled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fierce Little Tragedy | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Karloff to reassure them it is all in fun-a scene with a screwily bellicose veteran of World War I (Chill Wills-see cut), a horrible fracas between Zack and a dog, a still grimmer scene in which Zack, alone in his Y.M.C.A. room, all but drowns in a maelstrom of the unforgettable noises of combat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 22, 1945 | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

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