Word: unromanticized
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¶ During the staging of one more sham battle in his honor, Amir Amanullah watched with round, startled eyes while a 38-ton tank lumberingly butted and crushed down the brick walls of a model fort. Turning away his head, as though in revulsion, His Majesty declared "How unromantic and...
Revived with gasoline, the Columbia set out for Berlin where a gigantic welcome was in store. But fortune decreed an unromantic end. Off the course, lost in a fog, developing engine trouble-due perhaps to the new brand of gasoline-the Columbia smashed its propeller while making a forced landing...
Now this Rama Krishna was a strangely unromantic sort of person. He did not, as did Buddha, suddenly change his course of life from that of a prince to that of a begging friar. He did not lead armies, as did Mohammed. He did not confute wise men, nor die...
PERHAPS it was the name "Appassionata" that caught my eye, for it suggested glimpses of Spain. I might have survived the disappointment of discovering that the plot, far from being laid in the land of Marquitas and Pedros, found its origin much closer home in the city of Rachaels and...
One after another of the Things People Look Down On have, so to speak, been officially blessed by people who ought to know what they are talking about, until all rules of classification have been badly shaken, if not wholly destroyed. Jazz and moving pictures were brought into the fold...