Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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During all the dark years of World War I, Oswald Spengler in a dank Munich tenement suffered from endless headache while he composed Der Untergang des Abendlandes. During the '20s, readers in seven languages suffered likewise in the effort to follow its vast erudition, cosmic vision, Teutonic mysticism. Americans read it as The Decline of the West. Because its title suggests doom & disintegration, and because it was the gospel of the Nazi intellectuals, The Decline of the West is perhaps the most misunderstood of the influential books of the 20th Century. Last week a U. S. disciple of Spengler...
...privateer. Armed with six 9-pounders, manned by a miscellaneous crew of Arab, Dutch, English, American adventurers, the "lovely little craft" was also stocked with a library. By night De Ruyter and Trelawny (dressed as an Arab) lay on deck, gazing at the Southern Cross during "endless discussion of freedom and revolution." By day they sank other ships, rescued no survivors. Trelawny rescued a sheik's daughter from African pirates, married her, took her privateering around the Indian Ocean until she died (of poison). Brokenhearted Trelawny burned her body on a pyre...
...that has been the driving force in the creation of a conscious youth movement in America. To our elders, reared in an earlier era of unmitigated confidence, youth's readiness to question that All's Right With the World has smacked of "radicalism" and "skepticism." It has led to endless preachments and a steady stream of protesting letters and articles in magazines and alumni bulletins...
...Ohio Rivers join-the parade whisked on for a 53-mile, 12-stop trek up the Monongahela, on the way to Steel. Past burning blast furnaces, past stacks belching columns of black, profitable smoke, along the river with its flat, grimy coal barges, the railroad tracks with their chuffing, endless trainloads of coal and iron-on up through the tough steel towns went Wendell Willkie. The workers listened. There were boos; but everywhere they listened: at Hays, at Homestead (scene of the 1892 massacre), at Duquesne, Clairton, Wilmerding. Solid walls of factories blossomed with masses of dirty-faced workers, like...
...means that he is going to make sure she gets the drummer (Robert Cummings) in the Emperor's band with whom she has had a nasty spat. This is the essence of the plot around which bounding little Producer Joe Pasternak has molded installment eight in the endless success story of Deanna Durbin...