Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Firmly for aid to Britain is a majority of the nation's press, but one isolationist organ last week stood in splendid isolation -Scribner's Commentator, a magazine which was till recently a mumbling mouthpiece for radio analysts, crooners and comedians...
...Professional Joe Martin, back in Washington, bronzed from the Nassau sun, repeated his determination to resign in the spring as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Said he of an amateur: "Mr. Willkie would make a splendid chairman and I think the Republican Party would be delighted to have him, but whether it would fit into his plans I do not know...
...FEELS always a pardonable reluctance to agree with a publisher's blurb; but it is impossible to deny the truth of the dust jacket's statement that the New Yorker publishes the best prose fiction in America and that a splendid sampling of that fiction has been brought together to make this book. A warning, at this point: the New Yorker's prose style, a unique melancholy compounded out of many samples over a period of not quite sixteen years, is not very much in evidence in this collection. The witty, nostalgic, acid manner of the "Talk of the Town...
...With splendid irony the Japanese military authorities posted a sign on the barrier blocking off the "badlands" of Western Shanghai: "People with evil intentions against the Japanese Army . . . are strictly forbidden to pass through here." Specifically forbidden was the man with the best possible reason for passing: Major S. R. Hunt, liaison officer between the British Consulate and the Japanese Army...
...high hilltop in Sanbornton, not far from Laconia, is the Steele Hill Farm Inn, a newly remodeled farmhouse commanding a splendid view of mountains and lakes...