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"Recently, at a dinner in honor of a Croatian delegation, a guest paid no attention to the ban on total-war talk and started telling of the frightful consequences of the [Allied] bombing attacks. Icy silence fell upon the company. Hitler stopped his meal and indicated that he wanted to...
"Screams tear the night and the wrecker crew claws into the wreckage with bare hands to get at the injured. A British surgeon is already inside doing something under a flashlight, something quite frightful with his kukris [Gurkha sword] after his morphine has stilled the screaming.
News for the Masses. Folk-artist Posada in fact practiced a kind of picture journalism. He worked most of his life as a salaried employe of a publishing house in Mexico City. His zinc engravings were printed on cheap colored paper sheets, sold throughout the Mexican countryside. Posada-illustrated broadsides...
There is no doubt whatever about the justice of this comment. The play is frightful. Though concerned with the private life of a stripteaser, Playwright Lee has snubbed her recollections, which might have been gay and rackety, to indulge her imagination, which is chaotic, and display her wit, which is...
The real reason was different and deeper. At a moment when the French Revolution had led first to the Terror, next to Napoleon, and third to the edge of the abyss of world dictatorship, Wellington's task was to prove to the people by his leadership that conservatism was...