Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WILD SWEET WITCH (234 pp.)- Philip Woodruff-Harcourt, Brace...
Novelist Woodruff tries half-heartedly to get under the skins of his English characters, who are forever mooning over the little lanes and hedges of England but behaving with wise good cheer. The Wild Sweet Witch ends with Jodh Singh's death by violence in 1938. It is not violence brought on by his political beliefs. When he is framed by two of his enemies, he goes wild and kills them; then he dies fighting rather than surrender to the British commissioner. The "wild, sweet witch" of his visionary hopes-a free and happy India-has at least...
...tickets," the sweet young thing told him. "You're still listed on the Jayvees...
...Sweet News. Decontrol of sugar, only food still under price ceilings, set many a housewife to hoarding against a possible price jump. But the first day of free trading passed without an increase, although the week before some New York grocers had to ration their more apprehensive customers. The Department of Agriculture said there was enough sugar in sight for a per capita consumption of 95 lbs. this year, 21 lbs. more than last year...
...Tawny Pipit. A sweet-tempered pastoral comedy about English bird lovers who practically forget the war in watching a pair of rare birds (TIME...