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...violent one in Moscow, to the Cabinet overturn in Tokyo, to the tension in London; it was more nearly akin to the crisis of a fever, when the hearing is confused, the mind wanders, and fitful and disjointed images fill the brain. For the Nazis the advance on Mos cow was simple-this was the sixteenth time in two years they were moving upon the capital of another country. For the conquered countries of Europe it was equally simple-if Moscow falls it will be the sixteenth defeat, without one victory. For the Communists, the Marxists-for innumerable reformers...
Refugee. In a Chicago court, a farmer charged his wife had made him live in the barn to make room for his mother-in-law, then forced him out of the barn because she was afraid he would disturb a pregnant cow. The judge ordered the wife to take him back when he complained a rooster wouldn't let him in the chicken coop...
Holy Fifth Column. Richelieu's foreign policy had two interlocking parts: 1) to unify France under an absolute monarchy; 2) to break the power of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs and exalt the Bourbons. Up & down the rutted roads and cow paths of Europe padded barefoot Father Joseph. He visited kings, the Pope, rebellious nobles, foreign agents. The Pope made him Apostolic Commissary of Missions...
...with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat of honor with a crash which shook the surrounding hills, and might have wrecked his frame, had he not been received into a cushion softer than velvet, which some kindly cow had benevolently prepared for his reception...
Harvard, like Boston, was founded on cowpaths, and since the average Freshman's mentality has little in common with a cow, he has some difficulty in finding his bearings. But map in hand, and with a few pointers in his head, Mr. '45 will, in the space of a couple of months, have fairly well memorized the ins and outs of his surroundings...