Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essential. Until 1857, only Parliament could grant a divorce, and did so at about the rate of two a year. In 1937 Humorist-Novelist A. P. Herbert got through a divorce bill which extended the grounds for divorce to include desertion and cruelty. There was a brief, un-English peak after the war when second thoughts on impulsive war marriages swelled the divorce rate to 60,000 a year. Since then, the rate has dropped to a steady and conservative 7% of marriages (v. 25% in the U.S.). Social attitudes, and the teachings of the Established Church, still make...
...MOUNTAIN PEAK (471 pp.)-John Masters-Viking...
...offers the sixth installment of his projected 35-volume epic of the British in India. The book is a reliable old elephant, advancing indomitably over the narrative terrain while throwing the dust of unlikely adventures in the reader's eye. The gist of Far, Far the Mountain Peak is that, given enough rope in India, a cad may climb it-socially...
...born leader as well as a born pusher, Peter fights famines and bad drainage, jousts with floods, earthquakes and contumacious natives. He also decides to cross wills with "Meru," an Everest-class glacial peak, and coaxes the long-suffering Gerry to join him. They fail to scale the summit and Gerry comes back to the Savage home a nervous wreck, to be nursed back to health by Emily. She makes convalescent Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time...
...Mountain Peak has to be read to be disbelieved. It is cornball escape fiction of a kind that has been difficult to escape ever since the sahibs laid down the white man's burden and picked up the portable typewriter...