Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Owen D. Young she finds her beau idéal. Her investigations for his biography, carried on at her Connecticut farm, at the General Electric Co.'s plant at Schenectady, at her E. 19th St. retreat in New York City, lead her to say at their conclusion: "My best research failed to show him as less good than he looks." More a historian of business ethics than a biographer of men, had not its hero announced that he is positively out of the Presidential running, her book (being serialized in American Magazine} would make a first-class campaign...
When, early in the War, Lewis Alison is imprisoned with other captive English officers in the Dutch fortress Wierickerschans he, unlike his fellows, welcomes incarceration. In this enforced retreat he will be able to lead a long-desired contemplative life, work uninterruptedly on his history of English 17th Century Contemplative Livers. The other officers agitate escape, burrow tunnels while he burrows in his books. Against his better contemplation he joins the others in trying to escape. They are foiled, but escape is thrust upon him from an unexpected direction...
...Sophomores, with the rationalization that the mind must be cleared. If it be Juniors there are the Pops, or Revere Beach, or the river bank. But this is all extremely bad, no work obviously is done in the evenings and very little accomplished during the days. In retreat lies salvation...
...Further on there is a valley where the sentinel pines stand black against a setting of green leaved oaks and hemlocks. There is also a brook, and horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing boats in a duckpond, and the birds retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their domain. In such a place even the shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt...
...transport operators scowled last spring when they saw the upward march of passenger traffic falter and temporarily retreat. They were heartened by a 20% increase for the full year 1931. Last week they beamed when it was announced that traffic for the first quarter of 1932 was 31% up. Even the fact that Depression had nibbled away 4% of their air mail poundage failed to quench their delight...