Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agricultural sections. Soviet newspapers had recently criticized the widespread neglect of agricultural machinery, and failure to provide proper fuel for tractors, binders, harvesting machines. The Soviet Union's last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt to impose on recalcitrant farmers a crop-alternating scheme...
...surface facts seem impishly simple: backed at first by an elderly Halifax financier, he engineered mergers of banks, utilities, steel and cement companies, collecting ever bigger commissions. His greatest merger, which formed the $37,500,000 Canada Cement Co. Ltd., was almost a Dominion scandal (which Beaverbrook blames on a disappointed rival). But he was already tired of mere moneymaking...
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...very names of American rivers make poetry, from the Pee Dee to the Little Muddy, from the Penobscot to the Salt. But in Powder River, as in the previous volumes of the series, poetry is lacking. The rivers of America were never so dry as they seem in these books...
...good friend of Captain Liddell Hart and of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence, Robert Graves crams his book with superb accounts of Belisarius' military strategy, makes catapults and mounted archers seem as modern as machine guns and tanks. Count Belisarius sags from its weight of historical detail, as Graves's earlier novels...