Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years after Lord Byron died at Missolonghi muttering "Courage!" to imagined troops, the romantic Greek rebellion against the Turks still flickered in Attica, still held the sympathies of many a U. S. and English citizen. On July 19, 1827, for instance, the U. S. frigate Constitution anchored in the...
Animating spirit of the group is the French novelist, Louis Scheurer. Essentially romantic, Louis came out of his War experiences too cynical to be interested in politics, although his views were "vaguely to the Left''; too disillusioned to write good books, although his novels were critical successes; too...
The other portion, blended with the first and running parallel to it, is the equally romantic but far more vigorous story of the discovery of oil in western Pennsylvania. The home-drilled well that Peter Cortlandt has rigged up behind his grandmother's house comes in the day of...
A Los Angeles private detective, Mrs. Pearl Antibus. sued Millionaire Thomas W. Warner, onetime General Motors director, for $510,000. Her story: Police hired by Mr. Warner had broken into her apartment, beaten her. Mr. Warner's reply: The police had gone to rescue his son who was being...
Typical of Poet Millay's ingenuity is the history-in-miniature effect gained by having Father Anselmo go home early, leaving the conversation to circle through such topics as Romantic Love, the Supreme Court, the Past, toward ever more pointed conflict between Broker Merton and Communist Carl. Finally the...