Word: pre-war
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...WORLD AT MY SHOULDER-Eunice Tietjens-Macmillan ($3). Good-natured, modest autobiography of a poetess who helped Harriet Monroe start Poetry, clearing up some minor points in the history of Chicago's pre-War literary life...
...literary scene than Wilson's previous writing, and it contains two brilliant essays, one on the ambiguity of Henry James which is the most searching study of James that has appeared; one on the critic and reformer, John Jay Chapman, which powerfully evokes the confusion of pre-War U. S. intellectual life, reveals what it has cost its men of genius...
Congratulations on your Karpovich feature story. You presented the highlights of his talk on "Student Life in Pre-War Russia" in a well-written, accurate, and interesting manner...
...other Wanderer still at loose in Germany could last week have learned some tricks from an engrossing tale* told by Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
Although the sentimental novels of J. B. Priestley have contradicted the stock picture of Yorkshiremen as the most stubborn, blunt-speaking cranky-wits going, the Yorkshire novels of Storm Jameson have usually fitted the picture very well. In The Moon is Making, a pre-War family chronicle, she shows as stubborn and crotchety a collection of Yorkshiremen as ever stumped. But also among them is one who comes near to being a stubborn Yorkshire saint...