Word: dreadfulness
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Nazi Göring is Premier of Prussia, German Air Minister, Master of the Hunt, Chief Forester, General of Aviation and dread Chief of the Secret Political Police. It was he who ordered shot during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9) the only man for whom Adolf Hitler had acted as best man since his rise to power, Berlin Storm Troop Leader Karl Ernst. Last week the Realmleader was going to be best man for Göring...
Last week the trial of a German-born Clevelander, too simple to keep his mouth shut or his pencil still in Naziland, furnished the world its first glimpse of the super-secret workings of Adolf Hitler's dread Volksgerricht or "People's Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed...
...With Sand he had done his greatest work, courageously defying disease. Without her he was lost in body and spirit. Two years after she deserted him he was too weak to walk alone. His color was like parchment, his eyes sunken beyond recognition. When Death was near his one dread was that he might be buried alive. When Death came in 1849 his body was, as he wished, opened. His heart was sent to Poland, his body buried in Paris...
...Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans; the most apathetic audience was in Chattanooga. Massine traveled serenely in his auto-trailer in which the only drawback was a lack of hot water. For his bath every day he stopped at a hotel, a practice which Manager Libidins soon grew to dread. In one hotel or another the absent-minded director managed to lose two rings, a gold watch, $200, a brocade dressing gown, two suits of clothes, three silver spoons, a fountain pen, a shaving brush, a Mozart score and all his evening shirts...
...thing to a sensible plan anyone had was to overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer a perfect target for a good rousing Revolution later on. Last week's weapons were the ubiquitous Cuban bomb and the dread general strike which ended the reign of Tyrant Gerardo Machado two years...