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...stay put. Country schools were so crowded that many children got only an hour or two of schooling a day. Overcrowded also were the houses in which they were billeted. Householders were horrified to find that their visitors had to be deloused, put up a struggle against taking a bath, often displayed questionable manners...
With such diverting thoughts, the Wolfs prisoners did not complain of the tropic heat that turned their filthy prison into a fetid Turkish bath, nor of their grim diet, nor of the dhobie itch and typhus brought aboard by Japanese prisoners, nor even of scurvy, which began to rot them on the voyage home, through a hurricane that left the Wolf leaking 40 tons of water an hour, through the ice-jammed Arctic and the dreaded North Sea blockade. Eventually they felt for Captain Nerger the respectful gratitude due a hero who had saved their lives...
...issues at a conference table, the war would be ended. Dr. Dietrich felt sure that Herr Hitler would delay giving the command to start firing on a big scale until President Roosevelt could indicate his willingness to mediate. Otherwise, said Dr. Dietrich, there would ensue the "most gruesome blood bath in history." In Washington President Roosevelt let it be known that he would not respond to any such roundabout, undiplomatic suggestion...
...girls it's fun just to be with, without doing anything in particular. She romps and coos and pouts and purrs so gaily (even when there is no reason to) that Skylark has the same meaningless but unmistakable high spirits that a person gets from singing in the bath...
...long thereafter (in 1923) he retired, set about meeting all the poets. Plutocrat Amy Lowell charmed him by providing her guests with bath towels to spread across their knees in defense against her 17 slavering sheepdogs. In Rapallo he found a note at his hotel from Ezra Pound: "The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn't prevent us from having a vermouth together...