Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried Czechoslovakia's Dr. Adolf Hoffmeister: "A campaign of hatred has been launched against men of different faiths or colors-not merely if they are black, but especially if they are reds. This irresponsible freedom of misinformation is doing untold mischief...
...Married. Adolf Dehn, 51, satirical, lyrical lithographer and watercolorist; and Virginia Lee Engleman, 25-year-old fledgling artist; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wallingford, Conn...
...regularly sent us his Christmas gift order. It was always addressed to the same three people because, as he put it: "They need a clear, true, balanced story of the news more than any other three men in the world." The three were the late Adolf Hitler, the late Benito Mussolini, and the Emperor of Japan...
Russia's puppet press went too far. After one look at the article in which a Soviet newsman compared President Harry Truman to Adolf Hitler, the U.S. State Department took a hand. In Moscow; Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith presented a stiff protest to the Russian foreign office: "I cannot recall that Dr. Goebbels, of unsavory memory . . . ever stooped to greater ridicule and vituperation. ... I would never have believed that a Soviet writer.would permit himself, or be permitted, to draw an analogy between the President of the U.S. and our recent common enemy...
Frederick was a European prince of the Enlightenment, and not, like Adolf Hitler, a psychopathic noncom. He paid noble homage to Voltaire until the crafty genius abused his friendship by promising to report confidentially to the French court on what Frederick was up to. Frederick patronized the arts, practiced philosophy, loved poetry and composed for the flute. Just as significant as any of these gifts, however, were his personal candor and his lack of principle; he fooled and defrauded others, but he willingly, if secretly, admitted the frauds. Frederick was secretive and an adept at dissimulation ("If I thought that...