Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WHEN LAST I DIED-Gladys Mitchell -Knopf ($2). This marks the welcome reappearance of Mrs. Adela Bradley, elderly, erudite and sardonic British dabbler in deduction. From an old diary she gets her first clue to a trio of brutal slayings, holds an eerie investigation of a houseful of poltergeists, and finally scotches a cunning criminal. Slow-motion at times, but a treat for connoisseurs...
...World War II began, that many models now in production are already out-of-date. Says Sascha: "It is about time we stopped bragging. ... If we continue to live in a fool's paradise of self-congratulation and far-fetched alibis, there is nothing ahead of us but brutal disillusionment." To Author de Seversky, the case for a completely separate air force is obvious...
Some of the Nazis were pathologically brutal. Quite a few were kindly, intelligent or both. Swarms took snapshots of the girls. One gang tried clumsily to assault them. All were sure that England would go under within a month. A surprising number spoke fluent English. One & all were amazed to find women in military service...
...impossible for any intelligent human being to have read your article on Hitler's chief hangman Heydrich without wanting to do all he possibly can do to defeat the Nazi regime. I was already shocked when I saw Heydrich's brutal face and the typical ears of that born criminal on the cover of TIME of Feb. 23. Now, on March 12, it will be exactly seven years when I had the misfortune to fall into his hands...
...Ambassador and Mrs. Winant took a modest four-room flat in London, stood on the roof watching the brutal bombing attacks of 1941's spring. Often he walked all night through the streets when bombers were overhead, talking to the people...