Word: welled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bremen," by Irwin Shaw, is a collection of twenty stories by a young writer who started with "Bury the Dead" and has continued to turn out work of startling excellence. . . Ludwig Bemelman's "Small Beer" has ten sketches, dealing chiefly with Germany and Austria, pre- and post-Hitler. Well illustrated by the author. . . . "The Web and the Rock" is almost exclusively for Thomas Wolfe partisans...
...peace at all. . . Pierre van Paassen's "Days of our Years" remains one of the most enthralling, and certainly the best written, of the "personal histories" which the future will find useful in reconstructing our times. Mr. Van Paassen's literary gifts are sufficient to raise his book well above the level of what used to be called "journalism." Sometimes it seems as though the journalists are writing the only really worthwhile books these days. . . . Clarence Streit's "Union Now" has attracted much attention as one man's intelligent and constructive program for a lasting world peace...
...eleven-man executive committee includes a non-Communistic president, only three members of the Young Communist League, and probably not more than two former Communist sympathizers; the Y.C.L., although voting as a bloc, failed to capture the Student Union. While they did well in the elections, the Communists took an apparent beating on the Russo-Finnish question, when their blanket support of the Soviet Union's foreign policy was snowed under by indignant liberals. The liberal majority proceeded to condemn both Russian aggression and the actions of those groups which hope to use Russia's actions as an excuse...
...past and gloried in it and was content to have called a close to the chapter he had written in the book of affairs. The Herald man covering Lowell's birthday last night had said "He is living in retirement at his Back Bay home" and he might as well have stopped there; and the editor calling for a cut to go with the story had been handed an old picture dug from deep in the files. The remoteness of another day and another way of life...
...Crimson missed the services of Vint Freedley, who only played in the first few minutes, but the reserve netmen showed up well considering the fact that they have seen little active service...