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...blissful German wine country no spot is more romantically gemutlich than Coblenz, where the smooth Moselle slips into the turgid Rhine and the wines of both rivers are at their best, plentiful and cheap. To this perfect setting for a mid-summer picnic, the Ministry of Propaganda brought last week half a million happy Teutons among whom strutted as guests of honor 150,000 Saarlander, nearly a quarter of the population of the Saar...
Following hard on the heels of the four long turgid romances that make up The Berries Chronicle, Hugh Walpole's new novel reverts to his lighter vein. A Modern Comedy he calls this yarn of a present-day scalawag who, with the manners of Prince Charming and the soul of a snapping turtle, is the black sheep of a gentle English family. Author Walpole, who has a good word for everybody, seems to like even his own rogues. But most readers will have little sympathy with Captain Nicholas. He does not rise to the stature of a dark brooding Barry...
...nondescript structure of rustic thatch pitched amid jungle creepers on the upper reaches of South America's great, turgid Amazon the authority and prestige of the League of Nations have been held higher than anywhere else on earth for exactly one year...
...Stalin?," Soviet citizens, who have no Who's Who, turn to the Small Soviet Encyclopaedia. In this they find no reference whatsoever to Stalin's wives or children because mention of such personal trivialities is considered "bourgeois" by Bolsheviks. Instead they read 3,000 rather turgid words opening with the sentence...
Spouting like so many whales, the 66 spokesmen of the 66 nations at the World Monetary and Economic Conference wallowed last week in a sea of talk so turgid that most of their fellow delegates fled, whenever possible, from the Conference hall to the lively lobbies (see above...