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Germans in the street took the attitude that the invasion would be an unhappy necessity. They protested that the gallant British were foolish not to seek a fair peace now; that the Germans hated to have to subdue the islands. Germans who claimed to have inside information passed word to foreign correspondents that the attempt would come early in March -a good reason for doubting that it would come just then. But it was taken for granted in Berlin that to win the war, the invasion must be attempted - and must succeed - by June. As to technique, one well-pleased...
...weighty mission. That mission might well turn out to be as important as any in British history. Lord Halifax's problem was not, like his predecessor the late Lord Lothian's, to state Britain's case to a skeptical, suspicious U. S. The stubborn, gallant, outnumbered resistance of Britain had transformed U. S. opinion, not only about the war. but about the character of the people Lord Halifax was to represent. But if U. S. aid was to be effective, it must come quickly. And if the U. S. and Britain were to draw more closely together...
...close friends knew old Mr. Justice McReynolds as the gallant, trust-busting Kentuckian of another day, the bachelor legendarily faithful to the memory of his schoolgirl sweetheart (for years he reportedly made annual pilgrimages to Ella Pearson's grave in Louisiana, Mo.), the courtly wit of Washington society Sunday breakfasts, the man who wept at the graveside of Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and for whom Justice Holmes himself confessed a fondness...
...home that had all at once become impossible for her, and that in taking only her recent baby with her she was taking from Carl Friedrich something for which he may have believed he had no call to feel any paternal enthusiasm? ... It certainly looks ... as if the gallant opponents of the theory of the Geyer paternity have been defending a lost cause...
...crowd had gone to see a prize fight. More than that, they had gone to cheer a gallant little Negro: spindle-shanked, kinky-haired Henry Armstrong. Two years ago, at 25, Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie...