Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years. Those who read his latest poems, Vigils (1936), will be prepared for this serene counterpart in prose. To most other readers Siegfried Sassoon is still associated with 1) his realistic war trilogy (Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, etc.) and his bitter war poems (CounterAttack, etc.); 2) his spectacularly murderous heroism in the trenches (in order, he once told Robert Graves, "to keep up the good reputation of the poets"); and 3) his equally spectacular pacifism, when in 1917 he threw his Military Cross into the sea, publicly denounced the "political errors and insincerities" of the British Government...
...Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, onetime writer of women's chatter for the New York World-Telegram and now a columnist for the New York Post, Lady Astor proceeded to whip out a flat denunciation of Adolf Hitler. "I'm so much against him [Hitler]," cried the spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp the lives...
Young, brilliant, tradition-breaking Defense Minister Colonel Luang Bipul Songgram has had a spectacular career in Siamese politics, featured by frequent promotions and escapes from assassination. Three years ago an assassin fired at him, winged him at a football game at Bangkok. Three months ago his own valet fired two shots at him, missed...
...Spectacular, bespectacled Waddill Catchings in 1928 co-authored (with William Trufant Foster) a book called The Road to Plenty showing how the U. S. boom could be made to pop higher & higher like a Roman candle. In 1928 and 1929 Waddill Catchings got conservative old Goldman, Sachs & Co. to light up such investment-trust skyrockets as Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Shenandoah Corp., which soared and sank magnificently. Last week, while fireworks were still popping out of the McKesson & Robbins box (including an SEC investigation of Price, Waterhouse auditing), who should step in, match-in-hand, but impish Waddill Catchings...
...Macaulay since George Otto Trevelyan's (Macaulay's nephew), published in 1876, is Lord Macaulay (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), by Richmond Croom Beatty, a 40-year-old professor at Vanderbilt University. Outstanding is its fairness, its reconstruction of Macaulay's times. Macaulay's spectacular progress, says Biographer Beatty, came mainly from a powerful tail wind: the hurricane force of the rising industrial middle class, with which he unequivocally aligned himself against the land-owning Tory aristocrats. His limitations came from the fact that he identified "material progress" with social heaven. His real genius...