Word: nostalgia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good chunk of its outsized circulation comes from city folk with a nostalgia or a yen for rural life. In this atomic year, The Old Farmer's Almanac's straw-colored covers looked more reassuring than ever...
...Harvard Freshman ever sat down to dinner with a group of upper-classmen and left the table without hearing a flood of off-purple nostalgia concerning some Golden Age known as "the good old days...
...price the U.S. paid for "normalcy" after World War I was the depression of the '30s. "The U.S. shall not again be victimized by a nostalgia for normalcy." In such businessman's English, the Committee for Economic Development's research committee presented its plan for full employment to President Truman and Congress. The U.S. must move courageously, said the committee...
Last month, with London booksellers concurring, Dr. Cyril Garbett, Archbishop of York, nominated Trollope for first place in wartime British reading popularity (Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters tied for second place, Dickens and Thackeray for third). Nostalgia for the days when English life could be portrayed as a comedy of manners was the general, if perhaps too simple, explanation...
...since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement American Weekly was a peace move: he called off the old war between his weekly and Hearst's local feature editors...