Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the heavyweight ranks considerably weakened by the graduation of Bill Glendinning, mighty unlimited class grappler, and Captain Johnnie Harkness, national 175-1b. champion, the matmen face one of the hardest years on record...
...these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain is not the true England, the Democratic England-just as the France of M. Daladier is not the France of the Popular Front, the true Democratic France. . . . This...
Since last spring many visitors to Czechoslovakia have reported one thing, Every Czech, high and low, with whom they talked-and President Eduard Benes gave scores of audiences-declared in substance with passionate conviction: "Even if our allies fail us, no matter if we are left to face overwhelming odds and certain defeat, nevertheless Czechoslovakia will fight rather than yield...
...Jewish children remaining in Nazi schools are used as object lessons. A teacher calls a little Jewish girl to the front of a class, asks other pupils: "What do you see in this face?" They answer obediently: "A gigantic nose, Negroid lips, inferior frizzy hair." The teacher adds: "You see, besides, a cowardly and disloyal facial expression...
...tried conscientiously but has failed to reanimate this legendary quarter. He ploughs without inspiration through genealogies of the successive owners of peripheral café-concerts where Lautrec occasionally had a drink. It is interesting to learn that Jane Avril, the delicate dancer of the Moulin Rouge whose skull-like face Lautrec loved to draw, still lives and remembers him. Mr. Mack's research on other entertainers and sporting characters is praiseworthy and necessary. But Lautrec's garish, glamorous and vicious milieu remains sunk beneath two generations...