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...doing has upset both Army and Syracuse. But it has also dropped two games decisively to the not surpassingly strong teams of Fordham and Pennsylvania. And the remaining schools on McLaughry's schedules are Yale, Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton-none of whom are expected, even by the most ardent Hanoverian, to roll over and play dead...
...conversation of grownups. Settings gave her no trouble, for when visitors came to her Sussex home (her father was a retired War Office official), they made mention of "The Crystal Palace," "The Gaiety Theatre," "Hampton Court"-glamorous place names which Daisy seized and shaped into glittering abodes for the ardent characters to whom her imagination was dedicated...
...only motive which guided me," Goering testified at the N¨urnberg trial, "was my ardent love for my people." No doubt the statement seemed true to him at that dramatic moment-because it was just the right statement for that moment. Swayed by many principles, guided by none, and moved deeply only by a profound sense of the drama of his own life, Goering lived by whim, hunch, and egotism. He alone of the Nazi leaders could have signed the anti-Semitic N¨urnberg Laws and then, at his wife's plea, intervened to save a number...
...Lord, Napoleon's march from Antibes to Paris will look like a Boy Scout parade compared to your triumphant and bloodless march through Spain . . . Not one person will stand in your way. My Lord, your moment has come. Spain is waiting . . ." Even the country's most ardent male monarchists were appalled. Said one: "Luckily it was a letter and not a plea supported by her presence and personality that reached the king. That woman is dynamite!" Dictator Franco's police thought...
Millions of ardent fans agree with Tenor Lanza, in his admiration of 'the voice that has lifted him, almost as smoothly as it clears high C, from Philadelphia's Little Italy to a unique spot in U.S. show busi ness. For natural power and quality, though not for training or polish, it is a voice that many experts rank with those of the titans of opera. The voice sells Lanza, but Lanza, also sells the voice with curly-haired good looks and a paradoxical combination of beaming boyishness and hairy-chested animal magnetism. He is at once...