Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novels of Henry de Montherlant are characterized by a strange air of scatterbrained earnestness. One of the wittiest of modern French writers, he gets his effects, like an accomplished sleight-of-hand artist, by looking in the wrong direction, delivering little sermons about this and that, suddenly popping out with his tricks already worked. Because of this stealthy way of sneaking up on a story, his characters sometimes seem less like human beings than like rabbits pulled out of a hat, blinking uncomfortably at their sudden appearance...
...dramatic values are irony, sudden reversal, and skilful but not subtle symbolism. An example of each will suffice. The mother, a middle-aged actress, but still extremely attractive; superficial and selfish, but capable of deep love, continues to play lotto after her son, sensitive, talented and aimless, has killed himself, she accepting the doctor's assurance that the sound of the shot came from an explosion in his medicine kit. The same mother and son, in traditional Russian fashion curse each other for their respective faults and then fall weeping into each other's arms. A sea gull killed...
Very few of the polio-encephalitis victims died. Some were only mildly and briefly affected, returned to work. Others were desperately ill and still are. Still others, after apparently getting well, suffered sudden relapses, as though a built-up immunity had succumbed to a fresh onslaught of the disease...
...three general questions before the League take on greater importance in view of these new events. France's sudden reappearance in the headlines, making rebel victory even more likely, will give the committee discussing the Spanish situation opportunity to state a more definite policy...
...White hair. Depigmentation due to prolonged worry. (He discredits the legend that hair turns white overnight due to sudden fright...