Word: waked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman who called herself George Sand died in 1876, she was regarded as France's most brilliant woman novelist. She was also the world's most talked-about feminist. No woman writer since Sappho had made such an impression on her male contemporaries, or left in her wake such a tumult of debate. The public had heard her called everything from whore to angel. Now Biographer Frances Winwar (who changed her own name from Vinciguerra) has retold the story of George Sand with a tenderness, knowledge and enthusiasm that are likely to stir up the old debate...
...Frederic Remington, but Glackens' Night after San Juan, which he drew while covering the Spanish-American War for the Press, was a topflight demonstration of vivid, accurate reporting. In the latter-day paintings, especially Shinn's The Hippodrome, Luks's The Spielers and Sloan's Wake of the Ferry, gallery-goers could see how a whiff of spot-news training had led to fine art happily free of the musty brown academicism of the time...
Many displaced Germans had left homes which had been German as long as Karl Schwarzenberg's. Many had given up homes seized in the bloody wake of Hitler's armies. Thousands of displaced Germans sneaked across the demarcation line into the British and U.S. zones. The western Allies rounded up most of them, returned them to the Russians who could not feed and did not want them...
...violent stimulant never fails to wake everybody up: Margaret Rutherford's unceasingly funny impersonation of Madame Arcati, the medium who conjures up the ghostly troubles of the Condomine menage. In a brilliantly conceived mixture of types, Miss Rutherford bounces through the proceedings with all the healthy hilarity of a Girl Guide while she raises hob with the spirit world...
Last week, Old Bones, at the great age of 30, was found lying very still, with Peanuts III nibbling at his ear, trying to wake...