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...Brazil," he stated, "the German minority is relatively small, under a million, and it is hard to distinguish between the sympathizers with the old Hohenzollern Germany from those with the new Hitler Germany." He thought that Argentina was on the "right side," and as the German population there is much smaller, the majority of the people being either Italian or Spanish, the sentiments might be considered on the whole to be pre-Ally...
...Breezy Robert Ruliph Morgan ("Rulie") Carpenter, mountain climber and beast-shooter, married a sister of Pierre, Irénée & Lammot. Wilmington calls them "the lively Carpenters" to distinguish them from "the quiet [Walter] Carpenters." Says Rulie: "Walter always went in for heavier reading than...
That Falkenhorst did not brilliantly distinguish himself then is suggested by the fact that he came out of his first war only a captain. In planning the Finland expedition, as General von der Goltz's operations officer, he learned about embarking troops, transporting them overseas, disembarking them for action in rough, cold country, effecting naval cooperation to feed and supply them...
...champion . . . champagne suppers at Delmonico's . . . fights he threw and the chicanery he got away with . . . the carpet tacks he dumped into the ring to agonize a barefoot opponent in South Africa . . . early days of the century when U. S. sportswriters hailed him as the Real McCoy to distinguish him from spurious Kid McCoys . . . night life in Paris ... a grey day in 1925 when he entered San Quentin Prison charged with killing one of his sweethearts . . . the day he walked out seven years later with a parole in his pocket...
...should be; "He will be able to think clearly and imaginatively, to read even difficult material with understanding and delight, to write well and to the purpose. For four years he will have consorted with great minds and shared their problems with growing understanding. He will be able to distinguish sharply between what he knows and what is merely his opinion. From his constant association with the first-rate, he will have acquired a distaste for the intellectually cheap and tawdry; but he will have learned to discover meaning in things that most people write off as vulgar. He will...