Word: slain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maurois admits that Dickens "fled from himself. He fled from the memory of a thwarted emotional life, the memory of a deep love slain in the dawn of youth, the memory of a hateful childhood." But Dickens the Victorian man, he implies, should not cast a shadow over Dickens the victorious writer: he is "above all, a great poet...
Disappointment was general that the Government apparently could not make up its mind to state just why a fellow-Bolshevik had slain Stalin's friend. Rumors that the act sprang from a "private grudge" were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES...
...Hague and of Lausanne. London banking ire crystallized in the Times which flayed Germany's "direct breach of good faith" and, after rehearsing the many moves of smart Dr. Schacht to beat Germany's creditors down, concluded by comparing him to "the murderer who, having slain both his parents, pleaded for mercy on the ground that he was an orphan." In the general burst of temper small notice was taken of the moratorium facts:. 1) Germany suspends from July i until further notice transfers into foreign currencies of interest on her medium and long term debts, including...
BREATHE UPON THESE SLAIN-Evelyn Scott-Smith & Haas...
...historian, the tombs of Egypt and his own contemporary mentality-for me, the contemporary mentality and a few photographs. . . ." Readers who were swept off their feet by The Wave (1929) will find it easy to keep their balance in the slow-curling eddies of Breathe Upon These Slain. But even when she is writing about dowdy English people Author Scott is incapable of turning out an undistinguished book...