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...gets away with the feat in the best Howard manner: a polished, guileless, casual, sweet performance-restrained, incredible, a screen Englishman...
Hangover Square, by the author of two hair-raising plays -Rope's End (1929) and this winter's Angel Street -is a psychiatric case history written as a horror story. Its victim, George Harvey Bone, is a big, bewildered Englishman who suffers from "dead moods." Textbooks would call him a schizophrenic. When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable. When Netta and her friends persecute George, just for the fun of it, his "spells," once mere vacant withdrawals from...
...itself, have provoked the violent political storm which began raging in Britain at week's end. The escape of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, however, was an altogether different cup of tea. Hitler could not have concocted a bitterer brew. Any reverse at sea makes an Englishman gulp. But the violation of the English Channel by a mediocre Nazi fleet made the British definitely...
...this work it developed that the Greeks and Romans were actually Nordics -just as, when it later became convenient, Doktor Rosenberg pronounced the Italians "Mediterranean Nordics." The Englishman was "at once arrogant, rude and brave when he raises his hand and establishes an empire-a creative nation of masters! . . . The United States have the great task, after throwing overboard the rotten ideas upon which they were founded, of creating a racial state...
What Hess wrote, in code, no Englishman knows. But within three weeks, Germany was at war for the first time with an enemy she had underestimated. Something of the value of Total Espionage may be measured between the greased-rail destruction of Western Europe, where it functioned perfectly, and the unpleasant surprise in the East, where it did by no means...