Word: pre-war
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...real name is Emile Hcrzog. He was born in 1885 in the small French city of Elbeuf, son of a family of textile manufacturers. His father compelled him to manage the family mills despite his early literary ambitions, his youthful mastery of English, his desire to fit into pre-War literary circles in Paris. Assigned to British Headquarters during the War, he wrote Les Silences du Colonel Bramble in 1918, found that his publisher did not believe a novel about the English would sell. More than 75.000 copies of the book were sold, and after a similar success with Ariel...
...bestowed upon him by eminent figures in all walks of life. But despite Tertius van Dyke's naive acceptance of contemporary estimates of his father's greatness, the biography throws a vivid light on the kind of bland, well-meaning, complacent U. S. writing that flourished in pre-War years. "He always," declares his son, "said yes to life...
...life in Warsaw and Moscow at the time of the Russian Revolution. Mottke the Thief, excellently translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, reveals a fresh aspect of Sholem Asch's talent, tells a lively, picturesque tale of a Jewish vagabond who bounded among the pillars and posts of pre-War Polish society. Before Mottke was born his jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married her so she would always be on hand when he wanted to beat her. Mottke fled from this violent household...
...Deal, an agricultural export subsidy for the Farmers instead of AAA, collective bargaining for Labor without the coercion of the Wagner Bill. An old fox runs slowly, lest in his agitation his sweat leave a stronger trail for his pursuers. Somewhat on this principle, it was the pre-War fashion for aspirants to the Presidential nomination to proceed quietly in the early stages of the race. But if the highly successful premature activities of Mr. Hoover in 1927 and Mr. Roosevelt in 1931 have any significance, the fact that in October, 1935 Frank Knox is way ahead of his field...
...Japan all this mushroomed into such a boom as even the U. S. cannot remember. With thousands of overnight millionaires, a self-congratulatory middle-class with money and power was suddenly thrown among the feudal remnants of pre-War Japan. Its members invested in stucco villas and saxophones, art works and sex novels, phonographs, geisha girls and the best Scotch whiskey and earned the contemptuous nickname of nankin (chess pawns promoted by crossing the board). The fantasy lasted until 1923 when a 52 billion yen earthquake jolted Japan and proved a forerunner of Depression. Even today most moneyed Japanese...