Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Herbert Mize Jr. is an Episcopal minister who is conducting an experiment. That experiment has sometimes roused the good citizens of Ellsworth, Kans. to unholy wrath. But this week Kansans were digging down as usual to give Mize the money he needs for his St. Francis Boys' Home. Said one bank vice president wonderingly: "This man is Christlike, all right, but he's a genius at raising money...
Extra inches meant little except in the pivot spot. Centers Nelson of Winthrop and Rockwell of Adams commanded the backboards. In the Dudley-Kirkland fracas small Herbert Lewis was guarded by giant Tom Guthrie...
...There was poor Herbert George, who, though of medium height, had the look of a Disney dwarf. His deeply lined skin was puckered into thin folds in the apprehensive expression of a chimpanzee, and his features so far departed from the normal that those who met him found themselves looking back again and again to see if they could be as they were remembered, though the total impression was by no means monstrous, merely animal...
During the Spanish Civil War Herbert George had joined the International Brigade. Later he deserted. During World War II his ship was torpedoed off Narvik, and he went from one German camp to another. Then he got a letter saying that his wife in England had a baby. He thought it over for a long time and decided the baby could not be his. So one day when recruiters for the British Free Corps came around, he joined up, "just as a sad little dog, finding himself far from home in streets where they throw things, with rain falling...
...Circle No. 4 is the pit. Here, in that ambiguous clarity which Milton called "no light but rather darkness visible," are two architects of betrayal. These men committed not the treason of the unlighted mind, like Kenneth Edward or Herbert George, nor the treason of depravity like John Amery, but the fully conscious treason of ideas. One was a Communist. One was a Fascist...