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Showgirl Lydia Hill was the favorite of the Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...
...Proper Perspective. Londoners were heartbroken to have the past bombed out of their lives. They were, as well, dog-tired from night after night without sufficient sleep. Many were homeless, many hungry, many bereaved, many injured. Death mounted to over 1,000 at week's end. Nevertheless, all accounts continued to report Londoners' chins and thumbs up, their spirits unbroken. But although bad civilian morale has lost many a war in the past, good civilian morale has won very few. What were the concrete military results of Germany's first week of all-out bombings against...
...Fannie had not been insured; she was a total loss. Said heartbroken Captain Grant, who had made little money shipping things in Fannie, but had made a little more writing about her: "She's my first boat, but she won't be my last...
...before it ends. It is equally unimportant that the Preacher, who has never understood religion, becomes an agitator, or that Tom Joad becomes a fugitive from justice. Ma is the important thing in The Grapes of Wrath, for Ma begins as one thing, ends as another. A bewildered, homeless, heartbroken woman when the picture opens, at its close she is an immovable force, holding the crumbling family together against things she does not even understand, against agitators as well as deputies...
...Heartbroken and embittered, Poland's leaders faced more than the loss of their country at the railway stations in Rumania. No trains ran to the destination that they had to face. The Republic was dead. In its 20 years of life it had grown despite the fact that it had only a period between 1926 and 1929, some 30 months at most, of prosperity. The men who divided it talked of the injustice of the treaty of Versailles...