Word: happiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondent Edward Angly of the blue-blooded New York Herald Tribune reported the happiest experience. Everyone knew that Edward Windsor, once King but now only a Duke turned major general, was somewhere in France. Not everyone knew that his younger brother, Prince Henry, 39, Duke of Gloucester, is chief liaison officer of the B. E. F., with a major general's rank. Correspondent Angly was standing on a corner with his officer guide when up whirled an official car driven by an officer, with the chauffeur on the back seat. To Mr. Angly's glad amazement, the driver...
...United States, this solution is the happiest conceivable regardless of our strong democratic sympathies. It would save us from a probable re-enactment-only on a more terrible scale of the 1917 debacle. To the world as a whole, such a peace would be a boon from the gods. It would forestall a war which is beyond comprehension in its savage intensity, and which could well presage a return to barbarism...
Enter Nazis. Unable to compete abroad, the German business class cried weakly for a directing savior. In their happiest times they had always had one. The immediately pre-Hitler years were the years of the phenomenon of "tired capitalism"; the German cartelized business structure, which was inextricably merged with five big banks, did not know the rules of intramural competition. Then came the first Nazi experiments with a rigidly controlled system, with businessmen retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with...
Packed with drama and feeling, Lillian Hellman's plays meet their grim situations headon. A moralist, not a misanthrope, Playwright Hellman ferrets out evil and malice not to wallow in them but to flay them alive. Witty, sociable, personally far from stern, Lillian Hellman is happiest while lazing through an amphibian summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment...
...longest unbroken art tradition in human history, that it was the fountainhead of all Moslem art and the great synthesizer of the Orient, that such structural standbys as ribbed, transversal vaulting and, possibly, such minor techniques as cloisonne enamel were Persian in origin. Artists will be happiest looking at the plates...