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...book. Like other less scrupulous authors, Waugh uses some of his funniest incidents (Tony and Mrs. Rattery playing a card game while his little son is lying dead upstairs) to point his pathos. A Handful of Dust is a cunningly contrived cinema of cold wit, tender humor, impersonal satire, shameless, but effective hokum. Only a rare reader will be able to sit it through unmoved either to a smile or a sigh. The total effect is sinister. Author Waugh must be credited with having written a novel truly representative of an age which is partly melodrama, partly farce...
Chicago, 111. None. - ED. Shameful, Shameless...
...picture of Samuel Insull on the outside page of TIME [May 14] is shameful, and worse, shameless...
...future wars, and attempting the not too difficult task of convincing the capitalists of the rest of the world not to fear the protests of the liberals, but unhesitatingly to use Nazi methods to achieve Nazi ends. The Nazi party is, in short, a party of paid and shameless thugs, employed by German capital to use the ultimate means of repression against the inevitable attempts of the German masses and their allies among the intellectuals and students to create a better world...
...just before a raiding party came to ''search" his house. Martin was arrested in the middle of the night, taken to jail and beaten. Edgar was expelled from his hospital; on the bandages of the patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been shameless enough to allow myself to be treated by a Jew." Gustav was foolish enough to go back to Germany where he was arrested, clapped in a concentration camp. When the Oppermanns got themselves together again in Switzerland they were no longer solid German citizens: Martin would begin again in England...