Word: restedness
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India's festering sun beat down impartially on New and Old Delhi-on the precisely geometric, grandly drab preserves of the British Raj, on the noisy, squalid, sprawling native town. A sweat-soaked British wallah might change his shirt four times before settling down to an evening burra peg...
Evelyn Waugh is a devout Catholic. He is also a devout esthete and a devout snob. This week, in LIFE, he wrote an open letter to U.S. readers of his best-selling Brideshead Revisited (TIME, Jan. 7), which showed that these three traits are inseparable parts of his fastidious revulsion...
Both Tory and Labor M.P.s hastened to agree. At the same time Attlee warned that the burden of working out internal unity and stable government rested on the Indians themselves. A familiar reservation and reminder was heard from the Tory side. Said dour Sir John Anderson, former Governor of Bengal...
Kitty was taken from a lending-library novel of the same name by Rosamond Marshall. Not the least remarkable thing about the movie is the blandness with which it denatures the heroine of the original book-as loose, if not as active, a hussy as the notorious Fanny Hill. Sample...
By evening he was off, leaving behind him in Fulton a mountain of rolls, nearly a ton of hot dogs; Fulton had exuberantly expected 40,000; less than 23,000 came. His train rolled east again, while the old man read the papers that were brought him, his pink face...