Word: bloodless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectators heard little to remind them of Schacht's vast power as Reich Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank, or of the bloodless crimes involved in his financial manipulation to strengthen the Nazis. Said a U.S. staff member: "He's getting ready for his reception in America-probably brushing up his English." Said a 22-year-old U.S. court stenographer: "My, he's cute...
...where his new play, An Inspector Calls, is running in two theaters simultaneously) plainly tells whom he considers fools and rogues. They are "the tough fellows behind the huge . . . cartels," the "Lords Midas" of the press, "literary ladies and gents who adore peasants," "the aesthete with his private income . . . bloodless and shrinking." Veterans are also plainly told that in eschewing hominess they must stand four-square behind state-planned economy (". . . I do not believe in economic liberty. . . . Economic life is necessarily a communal life...
...body at death, and survives as a separate living entity. Moses corrected this false idea centuries ago when he wrote: The life of the flesh is in the blood (Leviticus 17:11). The blood is in the body and the life is in the blood; not in a bloodless entity detached from the body, in life and in death...
Confiscated also was all land owned by the Nazi Party, active Nazis, war criminals, Reichstag deputies under Hitler. Three days later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg followed suit. The land would be divided among the landless peasants, farm workers and refugee German farmers. Said Communist Party Chairman Wilhelm Pieck: the bloodless revolution may be completed by October...
Meanwhile the two major fashion magazines described the new fashions. Said Vogue: "New York fashion houses . . . have staged a sort of bloodless silhouette revolution . . . and no L85 rules broken. . . ." Said Harper's Bazaar: "Hide your flat stomach. . . . Unsquare your shoulders . . . shoulders are curves on sleeves blown out like blown glass...