Interwar

Otto Glöckel, president of the Vienna School Council in interwar years and undersecretary of education in the coalition government of 1919, was the leading figure of the educational reform movement. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Philosophy was not, in interwar years, an expanding profession likely to attract women. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Commonly described as interwar Hungary's great middle-class writer, Marai fled to the U.S. during the ascent of communism, and since his suicide in 1989, his work has enjoyed a mini-renaissance outside of his homeland. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As far as Poland goes, obviously the strategic situation in the interwar period was bad. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The fashion and celebrity photographs he took in the interwar years are marked by the smart look of the period and an aristocratic elegance he came by naturally: Mr. Hoyningen-Huene was born in St. Petersburg into a family of Baltic nobility. ❋ William Meyers (2011)

The interwar years brought rapid growth to TJ's business. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Yes interwar Poland was in a bit situtation since Germany and the Soviet Union were (by 1925 at the lastest) clearly so much more powerful than them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To the dissonant lives of the Mann brothers she has added the interwar wanderings of Leonard and Virginia Woolf, James and Nora Joyce, Aldous and Maria Huxley, plus a cast of peripatetic literati from Benjamin to Isherwood. ❋ Unknown (2011)

We unknowingly entered into a dispute going back to the interwar period between fascists and communists. ❋ Eliza Dushku (2011)

"Intellectual disgrace stares from every human face," wrote W. H. Auden in the darkening interwar years, and the new carping is part of syndrome that's even older: OWS isn't quite the Continental Army wintering at Valley Forge, yet one can easily imagine today's detractors trying to demoralize that soggy, somewhat dissolute revolutionary army during the times that tried men's souls. ❋ Jim Sleeper (2011)

Waugh, Graves, Maugham, Wodehouse, Coward: the interwar writer had not really arrived until he had a passport, a boat or train ticket and a chunky brass key to a room in a European capital. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Long, sweeping dresses with high collars and calf-length coats created a scene in which an interwar intellectual like Virginia Woolf would have felt right at home. ❋ Rachel Dodes (2011)

What fascinated John Piper and Eric Ravilious in the interwar period was the way that painters such as Cotman and Girtin appeared so radically modern in their exploration of their chosen medium. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Repository indeed: Mr. Giordano has been gathering music from the interwar era for most of his 58 years, and has been leading his band, the Nighthawks, since 1976. ❋ Will Friedwald (2010)

In the interwar era, travel was above all fashionable, and many of Thesiger's contemporaries found it fun to visit exotic places and meet strange people "when the going was good," as Evelyn Waugh described his well-travelled early manhood. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

During the interwar years, it would have seemed absurd to separate the two, when jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman appeared on Broadway, Fats Waller and Ellington wrote extensively for the theater, and thousands of show tunes made their way into the jazz canon. ❋ Will Friedwald (2011)

Germans like to recall the hyperinflation of the 1920s as a fable about what happens when central banks print money—but the newspaper said they should also remember another interwar trauma: the deep austerity and mass unemployment in the early 1930s under Chancellor Heinrich Brüning. ❋ Brian Blackstone (2011)

While "Chaos and Classicism" is just one slice through the remarkably complex period of the interwar years, it cuts deeply. ❋ Michael FitzGerald (2010)

"Fear" is what the interwar economists—confronting first hyperinflation and then the Great Depression—had to wrestle with and surmount. ❋ James Grant (2011)