Word: excerpt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excerpt:-"My Lords you are impatient for the sacrifice! The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim, it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes but which you are about to destroy. ... I am going to my cold and silent grave-my lamp of life is nearly extinguished-my race is run, the grave opens to receive and I sink into its bosom. ... Let no man write my epitaph for as no man knows my motives dare now vindicate them. Let them and me repose...
Italians: To the St. Louis Il Pensiero he wrote congratulations on completion of an Italian-American community hall. Excerpt: "Our citizens of Italian extraction have rendered valuable contributions through the years in making America the nation it is today...
...Literature Week" would create an unfavorable impression abroad, popular though it was at home, Propagandist & Enlightener Dr. Goebbels exerted himself to the end that last week not a single foreign newspaper correspondent cabled so much as the name of one of the 60 Kultur authors or an excerpt from any of their works...
After 90 minutes with the nominee, one-time (1921-36) Comptroller General John R. McCarl sat down, wrote an enthusiastic blurb. Excerpt: "I venture to prophesy that his will be the most economical administration our country has experienced for many a moon-and in striking contrast with the extravagances now so prevalent...
...Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book on the Great Naturalists, from Aristotle to Fabre. Smart Publisher Schuster wrote the incoherently enthusiastic blurb himself, said he meant every word of it. Excerpt: "The sound of wings is in this book, the murmur of the forest, eons of time, undreamed by Moses, the wilderness itself, and continents arising from the sea. Here too are enchanted isles, luxuriant in tropical splendor, leaf-fringed legends, sylvan historians, cold pastorals, wild ecstasies, happy, happy boughs - not simply...