Word: dales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lily Dale, N. Y., where spiritualism and Townsendism are the chief preoccupations of the inhabitants, a friend of the shades named Ralph G. Pressing announced that he had managed to record at a seance in the Maplewood Hotel a report from Beyond. The spooky commentator was an American Indian named Moon Trail. Dead 300 years, Moon Trail's remarks, as translated by his intermediary, Dr. Horace S. Rambling...
...Dale H. Maple, 20, is a clean-cut U. S. boy, with hazel eyes, white, even teeth, a firm, straight jaw. Born in San Diego, Calif, to middle-class U. S. parents, he went to San Diego High School, shone in his studies, showed talent in music. A devout Catholic, he attended church every Sunday. In school he studied German, became interested in German culture. He graduated from high school...
...home, affairs went less well. His father and mother eventually separated. His father wanted Dale to be a chemical engineer, his mother, a diplomat. Three years ago Dale entered Harvard. To please his mother, he concentrated on history the first year; second year, to please his father, he majored in chemistry. Third year, he pleased himself, concentrated on comparative philology-because he had always wanted to be a linguist...
...unhappy, Dale made few friends, immersed himself in the study of difficult languages-Assyrian, Catalan, Hungarian. For relaxation, he joined the Verein Turmwächter (Harvard's German Club), became its treasurer. With fellow club members, he spoke German, drank beer, sang German songs, heard German speakers, discussed German culture. For all their Germanic carousing, his companions remained good democrats. But they soon began to discern in Dale Maple a growing admiration for Adolf Hitler, and for Nazi "efficiency." Dale took perverse pleasure in shocking his associates by singing the Horst Wessel song and Deutschland Uber Alles. When pink...
Last week Dale Maple shocked arch-patriotic Harvard by resigning from the Verein Turmwächter and publicly applauding Hitler and all his works. To the Harvard Crimson's editors, who could scarcely believe their ears, he defiantly exclaimed: "Even a bad dictatorship is better than a good democracy." To educators, Dale Maple's case proved little about Harvard, much about the psychology of frustration...