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"Yesterday and the day before we were given hot baths and we were told that the German soldiers would come tonight to visit us. Yesterday we swore to ourselves that we shall die together. Yesterday they sent us to a big house with bright rooms and nice beds. The Germans...
Louis Verneuil's book is the first fully documented biography of Sarah Bernhardt in English. It is a little too reverential, but gives a vivid, intimate report of the legendary Sarah. Biographer Verneuil is La Bernhardt's grandson-in-law who, like all her household, except her son...
Philosopher Joad lapsed into agnosticism 30 years ago when, like many another sensitive intellectual, he "could not reconcile the existence of pain and evil with the Christian hypothesis." Like many another intellectual Dr. Joad felt that the greatest evils were social evils; rid the world of these and you get...
Aldro T. Hibbard, president of Rockport's Art Association, wired the Dial Press: "I was shocked to the camel-haired bristles of my paintbrush. . . . We of Rockport colony have always looked upon Provincetown as a weak sister in the field of art and this theft of our most sacred...
"To force a confession the police threatened me with firing squads as an alternative to instantaneous death at the hands of the examining police. For four days early in January 1 was forced to squat for hours in the Japanese fashion while four policemen slapped my face, kicked me and...