Word: yet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vienna once exported a type of musical comedy which brought the world much pleasure and had many virtues. Realism was not one of the virtues. Yet in the whirl of ravishing gypsies disguised as archdukes and ravishing archdukes disguised as gypsies there usually appeared a suggestion, not of life, but of how a generation thought life ought...
...last week, the once-clouded Mirror had a new, shinier look and Publisher Pinkley proudly reported: instead of 100,000, the Mirror now guaranteed a circulation of 140,000. The Mirror had not yet turned the corner financially, but it was a member in good standing of Greater Los Angeles' vast (22 dailies, 71 weeklies, 165 giveaways) newspaper community...
...high of $23.7 million (though, with higher costs, the net slipped to $1,000,000), second to Cluett, Peabody's (TIME, Oct. 11). Convinced that he has a winner in his new wrinkleproof collar, Phillips plans to push it with his biggest ($1,500,000) advertising campaign yet...
...with almost neurotic zest, James recalled "the most appalling yet most admirable nightmare of my life," in which he had first been driven to "unutterable fear" by a "presence" and had then turned about and chased it down a long hallway. Throughout his life James was fascinated by the supernatural. He read Poe's horror tales, thought several of Hawthorne's fantasies "little masterpieces," and relished the late 19th Century pseudo-scientific stories about mesmerism or "animal magnetism." In his European travels, he spent many weekends at castles where family ghosts were indispensable furnishings...
...authors are so serious about expounding their genius and yet so crass about packaging it as Philip Wylie in "Opus...