Word: versa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice versa. "No one will deny that much truth is ugly," he said...
...national, has resulted. Two different sets of rules, and two different responsibilities are thus set up; and the banks take advantage of this by chartering under both agencies. Often whatever operations are prohibited to it as a state bank, it may carry on as a national-bank, and vice-versa. Thus all control is rendered ineffective...
...Jumblies' habitat are detective stories about human beings. Writers of detectifiction are not usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...
Among the names borne by millions of European males, including the Kings of Italy, Belgium and Bulgaria, is grand old Mary. In Prague last week the Czechoslovakian Supreme Court made name-history, handed down a decision barring Czechoslovaks from having "girls' names" if they are male-and vice versa. "Every given name," ruled the Supreme Court, "must indicate with clarity the individual's sex." Cited by the Supreme Court as particularly obnoxious and explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many...
...notoriety: if so he has his reward. The Post's comment has certainly mingled his wine with wries however, and for you to reprint this seems a bit unTiMEly. His mistake in this case has no bearing on the one of the past [embezzling] and vice versa. What he needs now are sound advice and boosts, not blows which strike below the belt...