Word: pre-war
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...soberly to the common associations which they bring. It was an axiom of the schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more intimate values; yet in the short stories written in her pre-war days in Paris she must certainly have dispatched this facile critical theory. Miss Furr and Miss Skeene might have been written, for its directness and economy, by the Gertrude Stein of Radcliffe and William James. Upon this many of the apologists of her poetry and more characteristic prose have fastened...
Those who like Ah Wilderness! will find it human, kindly, a surely-drawn picture of pre-War home life and a compassionate study of the tribulations of adolescence. Those who do not like it may say that the only reason the play is set in 1906 is to give some actors a chance to wear funny automobile costumes. They will complain that the play is far too long (it has an 8:15 curtain), that nothing happens. Dissenters, however, will be in the minority. At the close of its Manhattan premiere, Ah Wilderness! was cheered to the rafters...
...Hersey himself. For Mr. Hersey in a personification of Old World grace and delicacy; of that refinement of thought and action which, as the product of an highly stable society, occurs only occasionally in history and then after centuries of struggle towards the artistic unity which was pre-War England...
...Paris the purchase of a Matisse picture started a friendship with Matisse; soon she was in the midst of the pre-War Paris art world. She and Picasso hit it off from the first: with the interlude of one bad quarrel they have remained best friends. Both of them acknowledge that they are geniuses. Gertrude Stein "realizes that in English literature in her time she is the only one. She has always known it and now she says it." Though she does not believe in popular success she would like to have had a little more recognition. For years...
...coast downhill. In boom times workers felt they did not need to belong to a local to get a job. With Depression they discovered that even their union could not provide them with work at a good wage. By 1932 U. S. trade union strength was back at its pre-War level and the prestige and power of the A. F. of L. severely deflated. Air-tight organization was maintained in only four fields-transportation (the "Big Four" railroad brotherhoods, outside the A. F. of L.), building trades, printing and the theatre. The rest of U. S. industry was pretty...