Word: reale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their lives...
...Wood, are first-class examples of lowbrowed magazine verse. As such they have the large yet limited historical interest of having been almost entirely written in the no-browed vernacular that H. L. Mencken, dean of U. S. critical horse-doctors, has long plugged as the right speech of real Americans...
...Rose in the book is a real person: Rose Lucy Renee Anne d'Aiguy, nine years old a neighbor and friend of Gertrude Stein at Bilignin, a village near Belley, where Miss Stein has her country house. Gertrude "likes Rose's way of thinking because Rose helped her remember "all the things that troubled my own child hood." Gertrude read most of the book to Rose as it was being written, translating into French as she went along, and Rose suggested numerous incidents. Says Gertrude" "Rose likes her book; she likes her book very much." Gertrude also says...
...Real Glory (Gary Cooper, Broderick Crawford, David Niven; TIME, Sept...
...would be necessary to know positively that the Nazis were sincere in their proposals. On the face, Hitler's speech reeks of a thousand old assurances and a thousand old lies. Yet this time his desire for peace may be real enough, even if his appetite is not appeased enough, that he will give Mr. Roosevelt definite guaranties of his good faith. He has never before offered to disarm...