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Georges Bernanos is a French Catholic Royalist and a writer of furious eloquence. Best known of his novels is The Diary of A Country Priest. Les Grands Cimetieres sous la Lime (A Diary of My Times) was an excoriation of Generalissimo Franco's fascism which has been called "the greatest tract in a hundred years." The Star of Satan, first published in 1926, was awarded the Prix Goncourt. His first novel, it is sometimes spoken of as the fountainhead of the revival of idealism in French literature. In manner as well as in substance it dares extremes of intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saint & Satan | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

Rosslyn A. "Sonny" Lyell '41 of Severna Park, Md. and Leverett House, was elected captain of the Varsity tennis team for next year at a meeting yesterday afternoon. He succeeds David S. Burt '40 of Old Lime, Conn. and Eliot House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rosslyn Lyell Chosen to Head '41 Tennis Team; Succeeds Burt | 5/28/1940 | See Source »

Anyhow, I dug the well, at 4205 feet, we hit the prettiest most porous honeycomb oil saturated lime that I ever saw, we dug almost 100 feet of that oil saturation and this morning just before seven o'clock, she blew way over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Artist Chapin is no repeater of formulas. In 1929 he left his log cabin and went back to Manhattan. His brush has since touched many another phase of U. S. life-touts, lobster fishermen, subways, baseball players, blues singers, lime kilns, Utah strawstacks. Sometimes his paintings are crisp and tight, sometimes loose and fluid. They are always vital. At 53, an art teacher one day a week at the Pennsylvania Academy, James Chapin is still undogmatic. "We are all students together," says he. "I'm trying to learn how to paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: American Challenge | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...British are known as "Lime-Juicers" not "Grape-Juicers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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