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...State of Massachusetts executed Sacco and Vanzetti for murder, but only two years later the Encyclopedia Britannica recorded that ". . . public opinion of the world felt the execution had taken place less upon the evidence than for the crime of holding extreme opinions." Today there is a more insidious movement spreading over the nation than the red hysteria that engulfed the early twenties. "The crime of holding extreme opinions" becomes a graver offense each day as more and more individuals do not express their true political beliefs for fear of economic and social organization...
...Grace. She learned to enter a room gracefully by rehearsing it hundreds of times under her grandmother's watchful eyes, mastered the curtsy by practicing endlessly with a heavy encyclopedia balanced on her head. But these and other accomplishments were merely part of the endless process of character building. "The Lord's part of salvation could be left to the Lord to attend to, but our share had to be worked at diligently...
George's library would feature a well-thumbed encyclopedia, and there would be tools in the basement. But George would spend most of his spare time attending to his duties as the unsung treasurer of the Community Chest. The Windsor household would revolve around their well-mannered children, and the elder at least would repay her parents' devotion by leading her local Scout troop and becoming captain of the field-hockey team...
...story of Molly Fawcett, a plain, wise little girl growing up near Los Angeles in the 1920s. Going on nine when the story begins, she and her brother Ralph, 11, are the "intellectuals" of the family. Molly writes poetry and reads The American Boy; Ralph has already studied the Encyclopedia Britannica article on Reproduction. Like any brother and sister, they sometimes fight, but the rest of the time they are such cronies and co-conspirators that Molly thinks they might one day get married...
...form, after a severe strain to his reputation in the Finnish war; they rate Zhdanov just after Molotov, which is very good going for a man who 15 years ago was so little known in Communist politics that he did not even get his name in the Soviet Encyclopedia...