Word: ors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the age-old Christmas ritual of Poland, the first rising star of Christmas Eve is greeted with the glad kolenda (carol) Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy (In the Stillness of the Night). Then the family hastens to table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness...
In October the fourth annual New Directions anthology came out with its usual preface by its rich (steel), shrewd 25-year-old editor, James Laughlin IV, who puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned...
U. S. Expatriate Henry Miller (TIME, Nov. 21, 1938). It did not do so. The book had been published in Paris in 1934 and was considered by severe critics to be, even in its fantasies, of extraordinary documentary power. It was also known to a number of readers as a...
Copiously illustrated with archaic, mostly unheard-of local faces, published by a home press, dealing minutely with matters which once excited a town or county, at most, a State, these 500 pages might easily have been of an interest equally local. But they are, for those very reasons and some...
For Josephus Daniels speaks his long piece honestly and guilelessly in the scrawny indigenous jargon of his trade in his time, and his naivete serves to reveal truths subtler than he suspects. A man who can pay tribute to his wife as "the best helpmeet with which man was ever...