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...said: "I am obsessed by this wild desire-it consumes my whole being: I want to make a mark on my era with my will, like a lion with its claw! A mark like this. ..." And with his fingernail he scratched a chair back from...
...central sector the Italians drove a wedge into Greece which was eventually intended to turn southward and meet a second, coastal wedge, surrounding Yanina (Ioannina). The central finger bored up the precipitous Aoos River valley, reaching its metal claw deeper into Greece than Yanina is. To get this far the Italians must have cracked at least part of the Metaxas Line-concrete trenches, artillery emplacements, rock-hewn machine-gun nests built last year and this under British supervision. The mechanized Italian "Centaur Division" took part in the Aoos drive. At week's end, by which time the Italians were...
Technocrats since the campaign began, these Zanics offer their usual mad stunts. Brow-battering, car-tweaking, nose-picking Moc sings hoarse opera. And Mike, the guy with a dinosaur's build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere...
...they are lost in an emergency or in creative tasks at any time." The times Neville Chamberlain came upon as Prime Minister were not conventional ones. They saw superannuation and complacency go down before threadbare desperation, Christian morality and capitalist economy succumb to the hungry rule of tooth and claw. They saw Anschluss, Munich, Prague, Poland, Norway...
Chief dental weapon at that time was "the key," a large iron hook with a head that ringed an aching tooth, a long handle for a good grip. "There never was a claw on bird or beast," wrote Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, "that was the cause of such anguish . . . such howls of agony as that diabolical instrument looking like a vulture's talon...