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...blow into them from the back must come out in front like notes from a flute." Shortly before Perscheid fled, Lange dictated a new and harsher charge sheet, threatened that "the judge who doesn't rule the way we want will be arrested in court as an Anglo-American agent...
Thus, in 1934, spoke a gunman sentenced to ten years in San Quentin for a shooting. He was talking a venerable underworld cant rooted 400 years deep in Anglo-American history. Britain's Eric Partridge, a lexicographer who has strayed off the fairways of the English language to rummage in the rough (A Dictionary of Slang, Shakespeare's Bawdy), shows in his massive new Dictionary of the Underworld that even in 18th Century London a beak was a magistrate, a college was a prison, and to frisk was to search. But U.S. criminals, no mere copycats, have made...
Several hungry, hazardous months later, on Nov. 27, 1826, they got to Mission San Gabriel, near the "pueblo of Los Angeles." Nobody took any note of it at the time, but "Smith's appearance in California marked the completion of the Anglo-American's long march across the continent, the fulfillment of his age-old search for a highway to the western...
Satisfaction. "I rarely could perceive [in the interrogation] any personal hatred or enmity for me-contempt certainly, but sooner an academic, detached dealing with an annoying problem in order to achieve the goal, and a fanatic, rabid -obsession of devotion to Communism and hatred for Anglo-American resistance to them-all the newspaper talk is to them gospel truth. And in this respect they are to be taken as disciples and fervent followers of the dogma. Not much imagination, nor quick brains nor much intellectual baggage nor sensitivity-but enormous stores of character, undeviating loyalty to their creed, fanatic belief...
...ardent internationalist. After the first World War he was one of England's most active backers of the League of Nations, headed its International Committee of Intellectual Cooperation, helped scores of refugee scholars find jobs in Britain and the U.S. After the League failed, he began plugging for Anglo-American friendship and the United Nations...