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...office desk: "It's a boy! Take one." Mother was also "an enthusiastic advocate" of big families. Author Partridge suspects that she had "some vague idea that by bringing children into the world she was helping to swell the armies of the Lord against the ... incursions of the Devil and the insidious infiltrations of Demon Rum." Author Partridge felt that older brothers were useful in a fight; younger ones made wonderful opportunities for teasing...
...Here is a devil who in the mere spasms of his pride and lust for domination can condemn two or three millions-perhaps it may be many more-of human beings to speedy and violent death. . . . Ah, but this time it was not so easy. . . . For the first time Nazi blood has flowed in fearful flood. Perhaps a million and a half, perhaps two millions of Nazi cannon fodder have bit the dust on the endless plains of Russia...
Three months after it caught the devil from the Senate Defense Committee on the nation's aluminum shortage, OPM finally had some definite progress to point to last week. Drawn up was a contract under which Aluminum Co. of America will build three Government-owned plants which will produce 340,000,000 lb. of aluminum ingots a year, thus increase present U.S. capacity (built and abuilding...
...they seldom depict recognizable incidents from Flaubert's story. They crawl with strange, imaginary, amoebic organisms and flower forms, emaciated, corpselike beings, fantastic planetary convulsions, disembodied bits of human anatomy. In one an enormous human head suspended in space gazes broodingly over a dreary seascape. Another shows a devil clawing at a pot of stewing human skulls. Redon fans, admiring the artist's meticulous drawing and the strange velvety sheen of his blacks, agreed last week that his nightmares had never been more vivid than these...
...Goshen, N.Y. they still have horses & buggies that go like the devil. Last week 25,000 city slickers and country bumpkins gathered at Goshen's Good Time park to watch nine of the classiest three-year-olds in the U.S. trot it out for the Hambletonian, richest ($40,000) and most renowned of the 25,000 harness races still held throughout the U.S. every summer...