Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next step should have been for Adolf Hitler to begin throwing his weight about. Instead he kept quiet. He, like the rest of Europe, appeared to be dazzled by the possibility that Lord Runciman might solve the Czechoslovak Question without bloodshed or heroics...
...reasonably competent officers" can expect to serve at least ten years with the rank and pay of major, after which the less competent majors will be given a de luxe bums' rush out of the army, retiring at the early age of 47 to live for the rest of their lives on a pension of about $2,000 yearly...
Some people are content merely to enjoy music. Others cannot rest content until they have explained, or tried to explain, why they enjoy it. Such malcontents have included sensitive critics, brain-wrenching philosophers, precise, rubber-gloved scientists. But the question, Why people enjoy music, still remains unanswered...
Like House of All Nations, The World Is Mine is a novel with an unpredictable future. Safest bet is that a few readers will enjoy its spotty but brilliant literary coloring, while the rest get the effect of a faulty spectrum that whirls out of a bad shade...
Died. Owen Wister, 78, prolific author, grandson of the late great Victorian Actress Fanny Kemble, friend and biographer of Roosevelt I; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in North Kingstown, R. I. His most famed novel The Virginian (1902), was the product of a western rest cure, sold 1,500,000 copies, gave birth to the phrase: "When you call me that, smile...