Word: pre-war
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...family saint. Cora married a doctor, went to London. Meg simmered and soured into spinsterhood. Ethel, the best of the lot, rushed into marriage with a beef-eating young naval officer. Anemic Bertram got a job in India, toyed with mysticism and was homesick. As they grew into pre-War maturity they all became hopelessly more & more the same thing...
...factors which operated to produce the antagonisms of pre-war Europe, the past fifteen years have seen developed in particular those of commercial rivalry in naval and military armaments. With regard to capital ships, this last competition between the major naval powers was partially curbed at Washington, but that treaty of limitation is about to expire, and the rivalry may again recover strength...
...War to seek her fortune, at the price of leaving her adored infant son at home, her weak husband to his own devices. Painfully she holds down a job in an advertising agency, lives scrimpingly in lodgings where her only friend is a blowsy adventuress. When her two pre-War pals are demobilized one of them plans to start an honest weekly; he dies of cancer before he can make a beginning. The other retires into scientific research. Hervey leaves her job, helps found the hopeless paper and serves it faithfully until it founders. Her husband becomes more & more...
GENTLEMAN OF VIENNA-Count Hans Wilczek-Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). Pre-War reminiscences, for those who still like The Blue Danube...
...insertion of feather-shrouded Sally Rand's box-office appeal adds little to the picture, but her name partly obscures the failings of her unadapted voice and faintly suggestive fan dance. Anachronous are the use of 1934 slang in pre-war times, and the fact that the Bolero was written...