Word: adds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might add most of his writing fellow Europeans have, missed the real point of American entry into the European wars. The average American really doesn't care what form of government Germany or any country has, providing that that government does not intend to use armed force as the means of accomplishing its political ends, domestic or international...
Real science cannot thrive except while pursuing a high, non-practical purpose: "The physicist returns from the war to cultivate his science. We are the inheritors of a great scientific tradition and of a beautiful structure of knowledge. It is the duty of our generation to add to the perfection of this structure and to pass on to the next generation the best traditions of our science for the edification and entertainment of all mankind...
...Add to this: a 13-year-old son to go with her, a country house to close and a town apartment to rent, an incomplete visa, no travelers' checks, nothing packed for a trip of any kind. And once-she-gets off the boat, her route will lie 900 miles across two war-ravaged nations...
...country, 'tis of you, land of the Cluett Shirt Boston Garter and Spearming Girl With the Wrigley Eyes (of you land of the Arrow Ide and Earl & Wilson Collars) of you i sing; land of Abraham Lincoln and Lydia E. Pinkham, land above all of Just Add Hot Water And Serve- from every B.V.D. let freedom ring...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...