Word: tumultously
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Chesterton accused Shaw of the gloom of a general Puritanism, and this naturally rankled. The weakness of the Puritan, especially of the Shavian kind, is his dangerous levity and cheerfulness, the merry, practical streak which evades the ungovernable tumult of feeling. The theory that the Life Force was driving on and on was felt by his audiences to be an escape from the crucifying emotional matter of the gains and losses. One more dazzling Irishman had talked himself out of life into the heavens like a whizzing rocket and had come down dead and extinct like the stick. One more...
...tumult and the shouting died at Seventeen, fresh outcries filled the nearby offices of Street & Smith's Charm (circ. 581,848), a magazine aimed at the "business girl" audience. Editor-in-Chief Frances Harrington, a peppy, prematurely white-haired woman of 45, had been fired after seven years. Her successor: Helen Valentine. To Charm with Mrs. V. came Seventeen's ex-managing editor. Out with Editor Harrington went six members of her cabinet. (Total casualties at week's end on both Seventeen and Charm: twelve.) Sweetly oblivious to all the tirades and tizzies swirling around her, Editor...