Word: tome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order," a thick, 1000-page tome which might more aptly have been entitled "A Thousand and One Lies," contains excerpts from every important speech by Adolph Hitler from 1922 until the invasion of Russia. Not so much a historical text as a study in abnormal psychology, the book offers almost unfathomable opportunities for following the twisted paths, the worn grooves, and the perverted by-paths of perhaps the cleverest and surely the most repelling mentality produced by a century potent with many evils...
...Spoil of Europe is no hammock reading. It describes the Nazi technique of politico-economic rape of occupied countries. A ponderous tome, its almost every paragraph is studded with ferroconcrete facts and charges that are almost too heavy. Random samples...
Lynn Thorndike, professor of history at Columbia University, this week turned out two final chunky volumes of his six-tome monumental History of Magic & Experimental Science, thereby completing almost 40 years of work...
...Georgia on my Mind, which shows that Krupa's band is one of the country's top five when it wants to be. It's a tasteful arrangement of a really exceptional tune, and features a vocal by one Anita O'Day, whose singing was as pleasant a surprise tome as it will be to you. Miss O'Day really has the right idea on how to phrase this kind of a tune. Consequently she's the closest thing to a female Teagarden I've ever heard. Reverse is a riff number entitled Alreet, a phrase currently popular with...
Last year CBS Script Director Max Wylie decided to do for radio programs what Burns Mantle does annually for the U. S. theatre. After wading through bales of material, he produced a 576-page tome entitled Best Broadcasts of 1938-39 (Whittlesey; $3). This week once again Max Wylie dredged up a few nuggets from the U. S. aerial dross, released his selections for the 368-page Best Broadcasts...