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World War II has brought a spate of innovations, ranging from the G.I.-adopted Shangri-La (designating a comfort-station in the South Seas) to the experienced tires hopefully advertised by second-hand automobile dealers. Only in the field of creative swearing, concludes Author Mencken, has American verbal fecundity sunk as low as Britain...
Truman now had something to discuss - through diplomatic channels. Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly would have been on the world telephones, chinning with "Uncle Joe" and talking guardedly with that mild, new quality at No. 10 Downing Street, Clement Attlee. Lacking telephone connections with China, a spate of personal dispatches would have flown between Chiang Kai-shek and Roosevelt...
World War I brought forth a spate of topical books. The best-seller of 1917 was H. G. Wells's novel Mr. Britling Sees It Through, which described the effect of two years of war on a literary Briton who lost his son. Robert W. Service's Rhymes of a Red Cross Man became one of the rare volumes of poetry to make the list. Mary Green's cookbook, Better Meals for Less Money, designed for shortage-harried housewives, brought Author Green considerably more money. But by the end of 1918 the U.S. public had tired...
Author Hutchinson eases the Orchilly family out of their dilemmas with the help of self-sacrifice and a spate of deaths and coincidences. But even readers who respect his serious intent are likely to find Interim disappointing. It is not only cheapened by arty metaphors ("I ceased to pluck at the sleeve of time") and an ornate vocabulary (including "presby-opic," "subfusc," "lincrusta," "curtilage"), but also lacks the dramatic quality of Author Hutchinson's earlier novels (The Unf or gotten Prisoner-TIME, Feb. 26, 1934; Shining Scabbard-TIME, Dec. 28, 1936). Like The Keys of the Kingdom, Interim...
...disjointed economy was kept from runaway inflation. Franklin Roosevelt set his production sights high, but they were met. There was bumbling, confusion, a spate of name-calling. But the war was fought and fought well. And with it, mainly by the good offices of its President, the U.S. took its rightful place of responsibility for the peace...