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Benito talked a great deal about how gloriously the lion-hearted Fascisti had departed from Libya and Greece. It was all the fault of the British for attacking too soon, said he. Besides, Italy had been fighting in Ethiopia and Spain. Besides and besides, Italy was pretty brave to fight Great Britain at all ("a matter of pride that will live through the centuries"). Adolf had less explaining to do. He was full of confidence for the future: "Where British ships will appear, and where Britain will fight us, we will fight them and destroy them. . . . I have fought with...
...They danced to Leo Reisman's orchestra at the Central Park Casino, munched hot dogs to the smack of Babe Ruth's home runs at Yankee Stadium, first-nighted the boom-time musicals, which often ran the Mayor's plug in their theatre ads. Those were brave days...
...best thing Oldster Einstein does nowadays. In any event, he fiddles well enough to be heard in public. One sleety afternoon last week he made one of his rare semi-public concert appearances, in his adopted town, Princeton, N. J. Two things prompted gentle Dr. Einstein to brave reporters and photographers: he thought most of his audience would be children, whom he likes; the occasion was a benefit for the American Friends Service Committee's work for British refugee children...
...boards. On the unroofed south side of the platform were gathered the House members; on the unroofed north, the Senate. Under the roof on its eight, paint-wet, wooden Corinthian columns the Supreme Court was ranked, in formal robes; behind the Court the Cabinet, behind them the Diplomatic Corps, brave with braid. At the very front-&-centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather...
...working classes are now receiving King's commissions. . . . Man management is not a subject which can be taught: it is an attitude of mind, and with old-school-tie men this was instinctive and part of their philosophy of life. These new officers will be just as brave and technically efficient, but they have been reared in an atmosphere in which the State spoon-feeds everybody from the cradle to the grave and no one feels any responsibility for his fellowmen...