Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less unusual. Compelling attention by their bold use of language, their mastery of rhythm, their melancholy speculative tone-as well as by the inveterate ambiguity of their meaning-the verses included in The Assassins ranged from night thoughts on the shores of the Baltic to an evocation of Alexandria at noon, gave an impression of a strong talent somewhat overburdened with literary allusions and traditional poetic moods. Possessing none of the sardonic mockery that distinguishes so much post-War poetry. Frederic Prokosch writes of ruins that call to mind the brevity of human life, invokes the stars...
...Assassins reveals a wide range of technical accomplishment. In such poems as The Dolls or Alexandria the poet's lines and images are dry, economical, with more than a suggestion of the exactness and finality of some of the verses of T. S. Eliot. But in Going Southward, from which the lines above are quoted, the images are tropical and luxurious, the racing, unbroken, drumlike beat of the poem effectively suggesting the panic and horror of the world...
...Article XVI provides that it must be succeeded by a similar pact, and commentators this week called it a Treaty of Perpetual Military Alliance. Under its terms the British Royal Air Force may at all times operate over Egypt. The British Navy will have a permanent base at Alexandria for which it will pay rent to Egypt. And the Egyptians agree to build strategic roads fanning out from the British Garrison in the Suez Canal Zone so that British troops may rapidly reach any part of Egypt...
...news after the races and the cricket matches. In Bombay, Shanghai, Osaka the Orient's cotton men roused themselves from bed or stirred impatiently in club chairs. In Egypt, where the world's finest cotton is grown on the banks of the Nile, the cotton men of Alexandria waited dinner...
...Boston, New Bedford, Providence, Charlotte, Greenville, Gastonia, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Torreon. In South America the firm has affiliates in Buenos Aires, Lima, Asuncion, Sao Paulo and Recife. Its Far Eastern offices are in Bombay, Shanghai and Osaka. Its Egyptian branch is in Alexandria, its French branch in Le Havre. In Milan it does business as Lamar Fleming & Co., in Liverpool as D. F. Pennefather & Co. Its representatives are scattered from Goteborg, Sweden, to Barcelona, Spain; from Lodź Poland, to Oporto, Portugal...