Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Then a knot of people collects suddenly at one side, looking and pointing up at a window. You go to see what they see. Up in the window, against a background of glowing smoke, a man is trying to raise the sash...
Like many another man who has written fiction, Thomas Hardy had first fashioned verses. Done with prose before he was 60, he returned to poetry, but not with the weak dilettantism of a used-up writer who wished to knot up the last frayed edges of his thought. In his verse† he states more succinctly, more bitterly the angry, scornful, rebellion with which he regarded the dismal riddle of existence. The terse wrinkled lines of his poetry are like those of his small face in their expression of quiet pessimism, of a thoughtful, stoic sorrow. His "Epitaph...
...knot of rustic, humble hillmen edged timidly, last week, through the massive gate of that onetime palace in which now resides M. Gaston Doumergue, the pink-complexioned, affable, astute bachelor President of France...
...RECKONING-Stephen McKenna -Little, Brown ($2.50). This is the last volume in the series of three called The Realists. The central figures in the series are again three: Ambrose Sheridan, titan and punching politician, who marries Auriol Otway who loves Max Hendry. In Due Reckoning, the Gordian knot of this situation is not sliced but neatly untied by Author McKenna. That he had the untying in mind when he first pulled the strings tight is sufficiently obvious; and Auriol's prayers for the one chance in a hundred that will release her from a marriage that was never more...
When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...