Word: happens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like ghosts remembering ghosts," he and an oldtime officer talked. The officer said: "Do you know, I can hardly bring myself to believe that it may happen all over again. Yesterday I went to one of our war cemeteries, and when I stood there I felt a kind of rage and a kind of anguish. The damned folly of life has caught us again and the sons of those who died are going to be the victims of another evil spell. Can it be possible or isn't it just a nightmare from which we shall all wake...
Finally, there is the aftermath of war. What will happen when we add to the confusion and cynicism of 1918-1939 the increased bitterness of feeling arising out of another involvement? Those destructive and cynical elements found to a considerable extent in Fascism, Nazism, Communism, and full Machiavellian movements are the products of this confusion. Americans are psychologically even more susceptible to these than the European peoples from which we came. This statement may be demonstrated by any serious study...
...straight truth is not the only instrument of propaganda that the British use. Their statesmen happen to possess a grade of literary finesse surpassed by no ruling group in the world today, and one in particular has contrived to bring to the Foreign Office publications the quality of the bestseller...
...been to start again once the world had recovered from the shock, and even his own people were beginning to be tired of these repeated crises. . . . Guns instead of butter were becoming more and more unpopular except with the younger generation, and Hitler may well have wondered what might happen to his Nazi revolution if its momentum were allowed to stop. Moreover the financial and economic position of Germany was such that things could scarcely continue as they were without some form of explosion, internal or external. Of the two alternatives the most attractive from the point of view...
KITTY FOYLE - Christopher Morley -Lippincott ($2.50). Author Morley's 46th book is apparently a reaction against his cloying reputation for whimsy. Heroine is the kind of a girl things happen to, a wisecracking blurter who has an abortive affair with a Philadelphia socialite. At once too sophisticated and too crude, too literary and too "natural," her confessions are a departure from the old Morley Mellowness into a sort of Muley Naturalism...