Word: nett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living authors have been deluged with the spate of homage which highbrow critics have loosed on I. Compton-Bur-nett. But as far as the general public is concerned, she might as well be dead-and not even her most passionate admirers (who include Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamund Lehmann) could fairly accuse the public of stupidity and ignorance. For all Compton-Burnett's novels (she has published eleven during the past 37 years) appear at first glance to be out of this world, artificial, aimless...
Young Henry Ford, barely settled in his new chair as president, gave his billion dollar empire a shaking that rattled its teeth. The first shake tumbled Harry Ben nett out of power...
...Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...
Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...
Shark-mouthed Publisher Frank Gan nett and carp-eyed Publisher Colonel Robert R. McCormick share two fierce emo tions : hatred of Franklin Roosevelt, a conviction that New Deal "bungling" in agriculture will cause starvation in the U.S. Last week, in Bertie McCormick's Chicago bailiwick, the two joined in an emotional spree, airing their fears in a joyous catharsis of rich gloom...