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...astray by the . . . very English idea that it is necessary to salvation to admit the more inclement states of weather to the bedchamber. Our forefathers slept with closed windows without hurt...
What Not to Do. Wrote Morgenthau: "Germany . . . has been compared to a mental patient ... a whole zoo of animals ranging from snakes to apes . . . a young girl led astray." He preferred to write without hatred, attacked many a popular idea of what to do with Germany...
...Defense Lawyer Comandini: "Were it not for Fascism, which encouraged political crime, Koch might have been an honest man. I have a photograph of him when a boy where he has his head on his mother's lap. That is the Koch I am defending. A lad gone astray under a tyranny which encouraged cruelty...
What's all this business about youth movements? Just an excuse for going out at night and getting into trouble, implied sharp-eyed, energetic Helen Sheldon, longtime headmistress of Britain's Luton High School. Citing complaints from parents that their daughters are being led astray, Headmistress Sheldon last week plumped for a 7:30 winter curfew for girls under 15. "It is not the movements that are at fault generally," said she, "but the fact that no discretion is shown in choice, so that two or three things are undertaken at the same time. One activity and once...
These are great days: bets on the invasion date have run up sizable pools and hard-earned liberty is not-so-patiently awaited. Remember, you learn about smooth rolls and pay accounts not to make 99.44 but to find the pennies and dollars that go astray in the field. Hasta Luego...