Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bloomsbury." Her physical existence is as sheltered now as it always has been. But in the 12-ft. square workroom, whose old-fashioned uncurtained windows overlook a half-acre of English garden, she has made a world of her own. It is not a cork-lined invalid's retreat like Marcel Proust's, with the shades drawn; nor a chamber of nightmares like James Joyce's, where after dark all the familiar objects break up into strange & sinister shapes. Visitors who feel at home in Virginia Woolfs world say it is a room with a view...
Repeal is dead for a year at least. Many thoughtful people would prefer to let the law stand, rather than suffer the baptism by fire of the public debate. This is an unnecessary retreat, however, directed by considerations of the moment. A number of the legislators who led the fight against repeal last year no longer live on the public payroll. And it is to be hoped that those who fought the good fight will carry on, and let the next assault go over the top to trimuph...
...secret that the Soviet General Staff have plans ready, in case Russia is attacked by the "alliance of Capitalist powers" her propagandists talk about, to abandon Leningrad, Moscow and the whole portion of the Soviet Union which just now forms Mr. & Mrs. Davies' world and "retreat behind the Urals." That would be the most tragic expedient the Russian nation has adopted since it "saved" Moscow by burning it down around Napoleon...
...Santa Monica, Calif. 345 of 5,600 employes of Douglas Aircraft Co. on the third day of a sit-down were indicted for "forcible entry and occupancy" but refused to retreat. Police and sheriff's deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened...
...last week cocoa was being as widely tipped as ever. Said the current Witkin Bulletin briskly: "We have risked boring you. . . . The bears won a major battle, but are deep in enemy territory. Bull territory! Can they retreat with their skins intact? We think...