Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago a man identifying himself as Durieux dropped into the Paris office of the London Daily Mail to tell his story. He not only claimed Red Hand credit for all the German cases but others as well, including a dart murder and a knifing in Geneva, a bombing in Rome that injured two children, and ship sinkings in Tangier. Ostend. Antwerp and other harbors. He hinted broadly that the Red Hand was also involved in the still unsolved murders of Tunisian Labor Leader Farhat Hached in 1952 and Algerian Lawyer Ould Aoudia this year...
...best love story of the year, involving a grubby Paris background, an unstable German-American heroine and an even more unstable White Russian lover. Author Marsh spells out the simple truth that love is not always a pleasure...
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg is one of many relatively obscure German writers who deserve respect in a literary world dominated by English and French authors. The reputation acquired by German writers even of the classic period of German literature has been one of an extreme stuffiness, and this reputation has naturally not aided German popularity. Lichtenberg as he is presented by Professors Mautner and Hatfield may in part dissolve this outdated notion...
Although the Lichtenberg Reader is but an introduction to this immensely interesting character, it should stimulate a new regard for Lichtenberg as a representative of an unknown side of German literature...
...high ranking Southern California two weeks earlier. The game was never even close. Syracuse's "Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard Schwedes, a slashing right halfback, Syracuse rolled up touchdowns with offhand ease. Score: Syracuse 36, U.C.L.A. 8-convincing proof that Syracuse was the finest college team in the land...