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...point with an additional turn of Ciceronian rhetoric. As in all State of the Union messages to Congress, President Roosevelt surveyed the world at large, assaying U. S. international relations. Naming no names, the man who Republicans pretend to fear may become a U. S. dictator, said some hard, blunt things about dictatorships which made Italy and Germany wince (see p. 16). Excerpts...
...horsemeat can butcher no other sort of meat; French housewives obliged to serve their families "poor man's meat" are sensitive about it. In Paris alone 69,323 horses were served up last year. German horsemeat shops employ no euphemisms, no golden horse, paint over their shops such blunt signs as Wir verkaufen das beste Pferdefleisch ("We Sell the Best Horsemeat"). In Rhenish-Westphalia the little city of Solingen boasts that in the record year 1929 its citizens ate 3,484 horses. At picnic parties of Adolf Hitler's famed "Strength Through Joy League" the garlic-flavored sausages...
...aware, like other experimenters, that cerebral tumors frequently nudge the olfactory centres of the brain, blunt the sense of smell. But sharpness of smell is so inconstant and the weak human nose can detect such minute quantities of a substance, that precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden...
...definite conclusion. Composer Harris had chosen the tune because it was what his father had whistled in the mornings when he went striding out to his farmlands, in the evenings when he plodded wearily home. Intent was to keep the music "roughhewn, sinewy and directly outspoken." In his dry, blunt speech. Composer Harris makes much of his background, of the fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma log cabin which his father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel Valley. At the age when most would...
...obscure last stand against Hitlerism, many German parents have been forbidding their children to join the Hitler Youths and German Maidens who are excused from school one day each week for "party activities." Last week such parents sighed despairingly as blunt Minister of Education Bernhard Rust decreed that every German schoolchild without exception must study one day each week and take examinations on the anti-Jewish, un-Christian and pro-Nazi propaganda works of Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, august Supervisor of the Intellectual and Spiritual Training of the Nazi Party...