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Zweig is neither Catholic nor Protestant so his approach is reasonably objective and his work is free from the heavy touch of axe-grinding. His perceptive style is devoid of superfluities and the work is one of stimulating scholarships...
...Lecky, pursued by some imminent horror, went to ground in the basement of the department store. Gradually, as he heard no sounds of pursuit, he got up enough courage to seek a better hiding place. His first weapons of defense were a kitchen knife, a fire-axe. Literate but not handy, he found his way to the sporting-goods department, got a supply of guns but had to read the instruction book before he could load one. His first shelter he contrived out of a platform of doors placed over an open compartment. Later he fortified a lavatory, provisioned...
...evidence is used to create a single impression: that the Nazis are consistent only in that they never tell the truth. Though no flag of warning is displayed, there can be no doubt about the editors' propagandist intentions. They, like many another writer of late, are busily grinding their axe in the hope that some day it may fall on the neck of Der Fuehrer. The book's merit lies entirely in the originality of the idea on which it is based...
Middleweight. When Thaddeus Jarosz (Teddy Yarosz) of Monaca, Pa. was eight years old, his father caught him practicing with a pair of boxing gloves. Enraged, Father Jarosz seized an axe, hacked the gloves to pieces. Before the biggest crowd (28,000) that ever attended a prizefight in Pittsburgh, 24-year-old Teddy Yarosz last week used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges...
...made excavations in the Old Empire site around San Jose, reported evidence of continuous occupation down to the 15th Century, just before the Spanish invasions. He dug up copper vessels, a shred of cloth smaller than a dime, neither of which had been found in this region before ; an axe carved from a single block of obsidian; a mirror wrought from a circular piece of hematite; a beautiful jade head in the grave of a sacrificed child...