Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LEFT HAND, RIGHT HAND-Sir Osbert SitwelI-Little, Brown...
Writes English Esthete Osbert Sitwell: "The faces he shows us often appear at first sight as the faces of a delirium; and then, horror on horror, one discovers that they are to be encountered every day in street and newspaper...
...them cabled us, he was so pleased-another (Author Osbert Sitwell) predicted that before long TIME will be speeded up so fast that it will "come out before the events it describes." And all in all these letters were so enthusiastic that I thought you might like to hear something more about how TIME has been flying across the Atlantic each week to an extraordinarily interesting group of men and women in the British Isles...
When mild-mannered Osbert Peake, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Home Affairs, visited the camp next day, stones were hurled at his car. Fascists shouted: "Don't listen to him, he's a Jew!" When Peake held up his hand for silence they yelled: "That's the right salute...
Cross-examined, Osbert admitted that the Sitwells had refused an offer of 150 pounds and an apology from Reynolds News. Snapped the defense: "What is the object of this action, publicity or money?" Snapped Osbert: "To try to obtain some compensation for the damage done and to prevent the newspapers from libeling artists in this...