Word: seraglio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making her absurd part plausible. So does Miles Mander, as the neurasthenic doctor. There are moments of high farce when the air-warden butler gets mixed up with Spring Byington (in her bedroom) during a blackout, and when the Widow Bainter wanders in on a kind of middle-aged seraglio scene with first-aiders all wound up in one another's bandages. Otherwise, high seriousness is the note, of which the most vibrant tone is Mrs. Hadley's remark after reading President Roosevelt's letter about her son's valor. "Oh, to think," quavers Mrs. Hadley...
...Japan's military power stared from its newly won profile. It ogled bejeweled India. It peeped up the rippling skirts of the Indian Ocean. It winked at little Madagascar, over by Africa's side. It was a gleaming eye, because now the key to the seraglio was in Japan's hot hand...
Rumer Godden is an Englishwoman who lives in India. Last year her Black Narcissus (TIME, July 17, 1939) spun out the struggling efforts of a group of Anglican nuns to do good against the handicaps of their new convent (a quondam seraglio) and the tremendous face of Kinchinjunga which confronted their small and gentle souls. Reviewers' adjective for Black Narcissus was "enchanting." It will do for Gypsy, Gypsy...