Word: postscripter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Britain seconded the U.S. note in almost identical language. It also added a compelling postscript: until free elections are assured, Britain would not return to the Polish Government the $16 million of Polish gold (shipped to London at the start of World...
...speech last week, Miko added a postscript to the message: "There are those who ask what we, the unarmed, can do, although there are millions of us, when brutal force attacks us. I told [Communist Vice Premier Wladyslaw] Gomulka: 'You cannot shoot...
Horned Pigeon, his second book, explains why he was unhappy and what he did during the first years of the war. The sorrow, as revealed in a tasteless postscript: his wife no longer loved him. The rest of the book is as remarkable in its way as Waiting in the Night. It gives a vivid, highly individual, often humorous picture of life as a prisoner...
...almost day-by-day account of these adventures, in the tradition of Cage-Birds, The Tunnelers of Holzminden and other "escape books" of World War I. Like them it makes exciting reading, until Escaper Millar's lapse into bitter irrelevance at the end. His publishers think that the postscript, and the pained significance of the title (the pigeon, released from a foreign cage, is wounded when he gets home), add to the "suspense" involved. They don't, they merely detract from an otherwise first-rate account...
Critic North appends the postscript...