Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anecdotal parade of Ritz's ritzy friends and of his famous staffs (called the "Academicians"), Madame Ritz's biography also recalls many a mouthwatering feast, describes with nostalgia the innovations which earned Ritz's unchallenged fame as the "king of hotelkeepers." Herself a member of a family of famed hotelkeepers, Madame Ritz is by second nature discreet. In her account, the closets of the Ritz hotels are as free of skeletons as they are of dust. Her only intimate anecdotes are those which point to her husband's subtle tact, his priestlike devotion to his guests...
...year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe's joke about 99 and 44-100% pure, or Demos telling about the Sophists, or some officer of the University declaring that...
...delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms, old-fashioned gardens with gazebos...
...anything more than his simple and sincere statements. At times the sincerity and simplicity combine to create the impression that the work was intended for children. Such passages are, however, happily rare. Mr. Harriss is consistently and admirably straight-forward, and wholly objective where others have lapsed into subjective nostalgia and weak symbolism. In this lies the principal and indubitable strength of the book...
...faint nostalgia assails me as I read comments in Press anent Nashville's Tennessean (TIME, Oct. 21). . . . I, as a member of the original staff, am too weak to resist adding a few episodes...