Word: temperamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oliver's second rebuff is deeper and more poignant. Since his boyhood he has felt a strong affection for Rose Darnley, younger sister of his father's old companion, a graceful, sensitive girl whose temperament is somewhat like his own. During the War, when Oliver is certain that...
Since The Last Puritan is complex, ironic, puzzling, there are likely to be as many interpretations of Santayana's long fable as there are readers of it. Although most of these readers may interpret Oliver's unwillingness to accept the world and its pleasures as evidence of some...
Italy. To this challenge Benito Mussolini replied by having the Italian Press omit all portions of the speech fitting his Dictatorship, but Pope Pius XI, accustomed to having his slippered foot kissed by dignitaries, supplied the full text to Italians by displaying it verbatim in the Papal news-organ, Osservatore...
A first cousin miles removed from Mrs. Roosevelt in temperament, ideas and political attachments is Alice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of Roosevelt I, relict of the late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth. This week that acid-tongued, political kibitzer, who generally gets credit for most wisecracks uttered in Washington, was...
Her Majesty at last gave the straight-armed Fascist salute, originally the Roman salute of the Caesars. After returning it the multitude of women began to file past the urn, dropping in gold rings all morning, all afternoon, well into the night. By this time Rome, with a population of...