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Compared to the refined abruptness of Benito Mussolini or the violence of Josef Stalin in disposing of defective political tools, Adolf Hitler was, until last week, the Gentle Dictator. The accepted Brown House axiom "Once your friend. Der Führer is always your friend!" remained a potent Storm Troop recruiting slogan. One had only to scan the greedy, sensual, plug-ugly face of Storm Troop Chief of Staff Ernst Roehm; one had only to reflect that all Germany knew of his bull-like philandering with effeminate young men (TIME, March 20, 1933), to decide that since Chancellor Hitler stomached...
Only one filly ever won the derby, Regret (1915), owned by the late Harry Payne Whitney. Fortnight ago, Regret died of an internal hemorrhage at Lexington, aged 22. And to all who talked to him last week, Colonel Bradley repeated his axiom: "Fillies are no good in the spring." For physiological reasons, it is hard to keep them in training. But everyone around the stables knew that largely due to Bazaar's, Mata Hari's and Wise Daughter's successes, among 2-year-olds 1933 had been "a filly year." They also knew that Kentucky...
...hoped, that the axiom in this instance may justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
...reverts to the limpid, nerveless style which served for the earliest of her books. Not since "Three Lives" has she been so willing to chain herself to the actual meaning of words, to limit her scope so soberly to the common associations which they bring. It was an axiom of the schools that with "The Making of Americans". Gertrude Stein had set out boldly and forever to the promised land where words have other more intimate values; yet in the short stories written in her pre-war days in Paris she must certainly have dispatched this facile critical theory. Miss...
...Beat Bradley and take the pot" is one of Louisville's axioms for the Kentucky Derby. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who makes his money out of his Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed...