Word: disillusionment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the five Firbank novels collected in this volume, readers-will find a pretty complete reflection of the Firbank private world, with only the coal and the real estate left out and no throaty constriction to impede the fluent lushness. ¶ Valmouth (1919) is a tale about high-society high...
Enough Japanese editors had read Reel's book (it was sent to them by the U.S. publishers) to assure that some day, when the Occupation withdrew, it would emerge from censorship. Then, instead of heightening respect for American good faith and readiness to acknowledge a wrong, The Case of...
Perhaps the sedate editors of the London Times had read a lot of fiction of the Rider Haggard school. Last week, as it must to all romantics, disillusion came to the Times. Its correspondent in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, cabled some stolid facts about "bush telegraphy."
The Dawn of Disillusion. Modeling is concentrated in a few crowded Manhattan blocks between Fifth and Third Avenues, brightened by the parade of breathless, breath-taking young women dressed at fashion's extreme, hatboxes* in their hands, their feet fleet and flat-heeled, their pancaked faces as blank as...
Thousands more knock on agency doors every year, driven by their own ambitions, by unscrupulous "modeling schools" which promise to turn them into cover girls in six easy lessons, or by relentless mothers. But disillusion awaits them.