Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail of the whole mess is that there seems so little to choose between Grau San Martin, the present dictator, and the A.B.C.'s candidate, Signor Cespedes, than whom no man more resembles a desiccated prune. The other fracas which cropped up recently was the neat assassination of King Nadir Shah of the Afghans at Kabul, the capital of that peculiar nation. Though in natural sympathy with all monarchs who leave their thrones in such precipitous manner, one's grief is slightly lessened for this great soul by the recollection that it was Nadir who rid himself of the obnoxious...
...pages Cummings meticulously chronicles a 36-day trip from Paris to Moscow, Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul and back to France again. His account of Russia is not friendly. To his ironic and individualist eye, the U. S. S. R. is the dreary nadir of materialism and mass-compulsion, an "unworld." Sample of cummingsesque: "unstructure with eagles. Despair. A on filthy floorless sitting perhaps drunken nonman. Confusion, timidly. ("See the" )whispers("nomads")Turkess . . . (stolid hugely faces poke from rags & bags: sullen squat drearily scratching lost ghosts. Men. Grunt nonmen. Their pyramid-of fear, surfaced with asquirm naked babies-does not move. None...
...ready to kill herself for having misbehaved with a young Italian in Cannes. The aviatrix and Sir Christopher Strong are as sad about their attachment as possible. She flies grimly around the world; he meets her glumly in New York. Their depression, induced by gallantry, reaches its nadir when the aviatrix learns that she is going to have a baby. She hops into her plane, flies as high as she can, removes her oxygen mask...
Beyond the Khyber lies unruly Afghanistan and behind its King Nadir Khan looms Soviet Russia. In the past year raids, riots, savage bloodletting and civil disturbance have burst forth alarmingly in the North-West Frontier territory. Therefore last week it was "raised to the status of a Governor's Province"-this British boon being conferred upon the dazzled natives with a show of might and riches calculated to arouse wholehearted fear and admiration for the British...
...industry in Boston has suffered more from the current depression than the theatre. Although the plight of the drama is acute in every large city, Boston's theatrical doldrums probably represent the nadir. Only four of the legitimate theatres are open at present, and of these, two depend for their drawing power on cautious revivals of "old faithfuls" of the stage. Nor does the approach of the Christmas season promise any substantial increase in now plays...