Word: retrospect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true that errors did creep is but they were merely gradual steps and are easier to recognize as errors when viewed in retrospect than the were at the time...
During the performance it is impossible not to be completely immersed in the production, but the cooling effect of retrospect shows that merit of the offering lies perhaps more in the work of the two leading ladies than in the virtues of the manuscript. Zoe Atkins' dramatization of Edith Wharton's novel produces a quietly accelerating story which rises in the last act to genuinely fine drama but the play's success must be attributed in large part to the lucid, mature, and movingly sincere talents of the Misses Mencken and Anderson...
German attempts at counter-propaganda mostly misfired. Most spectacular were the visits of the Dentschland, commercial submarine, to Baltimore, and the U-53 (which sank nine merchantmen off Nantucket) to Newport. As sporting events, both these voyages appealed to the U. S. imagination, but in retrospect they soon seemed a threat...
...experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word of a man who had reached the age of 74 on a constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine old port, beautiful and savory in its cut-glass goblet, warming and exhilarating...
...fear withdrawals, and the public generally to steer clear of bonds, especially government bonds. The whole question of whether paper currency inflation, once started, could be controlled, has been returned to the realm of theory by the realization that the government did not intend to start it. In retrospect, it is difficult to see what positive dangers existed of sufficient magnitude to lead the Treasury's chief adviser to resign in such spectacular fashion...