Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boarded a New York Central office car. clutching a fat envelope. ''This is something that can't be lost." he gravely explained. "It's Mooney's record, and I always stand by the record. Let's hope that justice is waiting." In lighter vein he deplored missing the Kid Chocolate-Tony Canzoneri fight, an inconvenience which he palliated by going to the Southern California-Notre Dame football game at South Bend, Ind. (see p. 23). His brief for Prisoner Mooney, he prepared aboard the Overland Limited between Chicago and San Francisco...
...Manchuria had been crushed last week. Only at Chinchow, far to the south of Manchuria and near China proper, was there any large group of Chinese soldiers who might do battle. To hearten them Chinese President Chiang Kaishek at Nanking-1,000 miles south announced in the flamboyant vein of General Ma that he would personally rush north "to direct the offensive and avenge China's honor." But President Chiang did not stir out of Nanking last week...
...said the advanced Capitalist State would be the first to make a Communist revolution. The English should be ashamed of themselves not to be the first. . . . When you [the Soviets] have finished your job and succeeded there will be a hurry to follow your example." He continued in this vein later, in a radio broadcast: "If Lenin's experiment fails, present civilization fails. . . . If the other nations follow Lenin's method, we will not have collapse and failure. If the future is with Lenin, then we can smile...
...result: exile in Switzerland, where he still lives (aetat 65). When he digs into a subject he digs deep. His ten-volume Jean-Christophe won him the Nobel Prize (1915). The Soul Enchanted, a study in feminism, ran to three volumes. Since then he has been working the Beethoven vein, has published one (U. S.-translated) book on Beethoven the Creator (TIME, Sept. 16, 1929). Rolland's scholarship is a mine from which he does not care to emerge. Says he: "My connections with my generation are broken...
...unwary reader who does not realize that No Surrender is a sequel to The Rebel Generation, she has prefaced this book with a revealing but formidable genealogical table. Good and caustic when it comes to describing a family anniversary, Novelist Van Ammers-Kuller in her feminist vein gets almost committee-womanish. She started to write before she was 20, quit when she married, began again when her two boys were safe in school, her husband director of the Leyden gas works. Other translated books: Tantalus, The House of Joy, Jenny Heysten's Career...