Word: sassoon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain last week brought into London's Old Street Police Court doughty John Penfold, an auctioneer charged with warming up a London slum gathering with the words: "I'd turn all the Jews out of Britain! And I'd start with Hore-Belisha [Transport Minister], Sassoon [Undersecretary for Air] and Epstein [sculptor...
...Peppered peppery Undersecretary for Air Sir Philip Sassoon and overwrought Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden with demands that something be done about Germany's insolence in sending the Hindenburg flying over strategic British areas and about Adolf Hitler's neglect to answer Mr. Eden's questions about the intentions of Nazidom in Europe (TIME, May 18). Presently the handsome young Foreign Secretary's doctor packed him off to the country for a "complete rest," and pretty Mrs. Eden explained that her poor "Tony" has been working 16 hours-per-day. His previous letdown (TIME, April...
VIGILS - Siegfried Sassoon - Viking ($1.50). Of the British poets whom the War sent over the top, Siegfried Sassoon is one of the few survivors. As an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers he served with such absent-minded gallantry that he was awarded the Military Cross, was recommended for the D. S. O. Then in 1917, because he considered that the War had degenerated into a senseless slaughter, he published a public protest, "in wilful defiance of military authority." Because he was a war-hero he was not court-martialed but hushed away into a mental hospital. The front line...
Readers close this book of meditative, resigned verse wondering whether Siegfried Sassoon had once been shell-shocked into poetry...
...jolly apologias emitted from time to time by U. S. foxy grandpas. Latest view-halloo was sounded by Harry Twyford Peters, Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds. Written primarily of and for the manure set, Just Hunting is not to be mentioned in the same breath with Siegfried Sassoon's masterly Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, but even to readers who have never seen the world from the vantage of horseback it presents an easily comprehended view...