Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Storm. The Wohlthat-Hudson discussions were supposed to be secret and confidential. Dr. Wohlthat returned to Germany to report to Field Marshal Göring, but scarcely had he left before the plan-and garbled versions of it-had leaked out all over the world, much to the Secretary's annoyance and embarrassment. Early this week a sizable Parliamentary storm was coming up, and the British public, in no mood for further appeasement, was definitely angry...
...case of tenancies covered by the Rent Acts, passed during the War to prevent profiteering, the strikers sometimes have a good legal case and have even recovered back rent paid in excess of the law. More often the strike is completely illegal, but that does not make the landlords much happier. Last month when 83 police smashed through a strikers' barricade in Stepney, East End London borough, and evicted five families, Tenant Defence detachments promptly reinstated them. Boasts Father John Groser, Church of England leader of the Stepney strike: "Many landlords have watched the straws in the wind...
Though he writes best about orchids, shrewd Author MacDonald does not write too much about them. He senses that most readers will read his jungle success story for its account of guácharos, birds with whiskers on their beaks (when their young fall out of the nest they plop and explode), trees that put people to sleep, moths whose sting drives men insane...
Kangerdlugssuatsiaq. Paul-Emile Victor looks like a young man about Paris. He is an outstanding French ethnographer who has the frozen field of Eskimo doings pretty much to himself. He speaks fluently their polysyllabic language which for most people is as tough as a piece of walrus gristle. At Kangerdlugssuatsiaq, he lived for six months as a member of the Eskimo community, records his observations of life in a crowded igloo in a 349-page book, whose footnotes and appendices are often more exciting than the rather disjointed text...
From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Grapes of Wrath, novels whose characters make social problems look alive have been surefire bestsellers. Right down this fictional alley marches stoop-shouldered old Isaac Emmanuel, drawn to shed much heat and some light on Nazi methods, Jewish refugees...