Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After he was "over," Hoover's head quarters admitted the bold extent to which they had bluffed in their pre-convention claims about delegates. They admitted that the arrival of the big and baffling Pennsylvania delegation was like the night before Christmas. New York and Massachusetts would do as Pennsylvania did and that would decide matters. Discovering what Pennsylvania would do was like peeping up the chimney for Santa Claus. The figure whom the Hooverites first saw in the chimney, and whom a nettled press credited with being the real though surprising Santa Claus, was not the frosted patrician...
CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...
Features of this issue, the last of the year, will include the list of honorary degrees awarded by the University, the list of honors won by members of the graduating class, an authoritative and complete pre-anaalysis of the Harvard-Yale boat race, and a complete story of the baseball game of the preceding afternoon...
Reasons for Alarm. Production of grain in the Soviet Union is now almost up to the pre-Revolutionary level, yet there is an acute shortage of grain in the cities, and so little is left for export that that figure now stands at less than one twentieth of the 10,000,000 tons exported in average Romanov years...
...contributing a new historical romance. "A Little Less than Gods", and T. F. Powys follows up his "Mr Weston's Good Wine" of this Spring, with a group of short stories The little blue volumes of "Sakis" short stories which are beginning to recover and enlarge upon then pre-war popularity in England will receive another addition next fall...