Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile commercial-minded Bahamians gleefully awaited the arrival of the royal couple. With the sponge-fishing industry severely curtailed by disease, the islands are almost completely dependent on the tourist trade, which has slimmed down greatly since outbreak of war disrupted ship schedules to Nassau. But shopkeepers confidently expected the...
To U. S. Communist intellectuals, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was more than a gentleman - he was a bourgeois Bolshevik. He exuded respectability, which - next to an aura of romantic criminality - is the quality middle-class Marxists most prize. Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and...
When, at the age of 22, Richard Halliburton lawlessly hid in the shrubbery, watched the Taj Mahal and his chance by moonlight, and swam in the lily-padded pool, he was neither putting on a show nor concocting copy: he was simply a college boy on the loose, a little...
STARS ON THE SEA-F. van Wyck Mason-Lippincotf ($2.75). The season's most successful costume fiction and plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has...
To his early romantic experiences R. S.