Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toothy grin, a penchant for flying, no allergy to work. On school vacations he worked as a "fly boy" in the pressroom at his father's New York Mirror. By the time he was 23 he was president of the American, and nobody objected. He earned the fond regard of Manhattan cops and firemen by plugging to get them higher pay. Occasionally he went nightclubbing with Irving Berlin...
...does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice...
...this volume as the laureate of the Maquis. In English these poems, intensely patriotic, often loose and ballad-like, richly embellished with surrealist imagery, are eloquent, interesting, but difficult to assess as poetry. The detached reader is likely to wonder whether Aragon is being canonized with too little regard for Jean Cocteau's cynical observation: "In French poetry there is only one rhyme: La France, la Résistance...
...microphone they led strange allies-Miner John L. Lewis, who rumbled that merger would "make for a greater concentration of military power than we have ever had before . . . I am reluctant. . . ." And Catholic Educator (Catholic University of America) Maurice Sheehy, naval chaplain for five years, who cried: "I . . . regard as an evil thing any movement which challenges radically the conditions of life for half a million...
...still China's biggest and most cosmopolitan city. But it has been isolated for years. Shanghai's frantic trading is all smalltime stuff-as though New York's retail stores were going like mad with no wholesaling, manufacturing or shipping. The national government probably will regard Shanghai as its wicked Wall Street and keep a firm hand on the city...