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...Hindenburg was of all the potentates of Europe the most resigned to Germans who talked of war, and said that Germany could not issue from a second war in degradation greater than the first, cannot have been so quickly dispersed. Hindenburg would probably agree with Hitler in his disgust for Communism, and as a Teuton would always cherish a secret dalliance with the idea of baiting Jews, but one is inclined to think that if he were still whole, he would rise in vigorous protest against the Nazis' ignorant and irritating foreign policy. Hindenburg may have been a general...
Some readers laugh, some are annoyed; some snort with disgust or indignation. Gertrude Stein, writer for posterity ("I write for myself and strangers'") does not mind. Says she slyly: "My sentence: do get under their skin...
Among places to go to, beside the Streets of Paris, are these: The Pirate Ship, which vulgar "Texas" Guinan left in disgust last week; the vast Old Manhattan Gardens, where the girls wear nothing but silver paint; Old Mexico, where some more employes of C. C. Pyle do the rumba; the Days of '49, which had very friendly dance hall girls at first...
...Death of a Hero, Author Aldington's first job of fiction, was that the writer attacked his story with the malicious gusto of a man who was hopping mad. In Roads to Glory, The Colonel's Daughter, Soft Answers, the War-torn writer's spleen, his disgust with the England he loves too well, abated not a whit. If there is less bile in All Men Are Enemies, if it seems a bit less malicious than the previous Aldington novels, it is because it is longer (574 pp.), less direct, padded. Author Aldington is finding it increasingly...
...manager. When he did not appear. Clergyman Tobias, thoroughly angered, summoned a policeman off the street, made him produce the manager. After an hour's wrangling Channing Tobias, no ordinary clergyman but senior secretary of the Y. M. C. A.'s colored work, stormed out in disgust, sued Horn & Hardart for denying his civil rights...