Word: hessians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work. Said Runyon of Runyon: "By saying something with a half-boob air ... he gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage . . . He is a hired Hessian of the type writer ... I tell you Runyon has subtlety but it is the considered opinion of this reviewer that it is a great pity the guy did not remain a rebel out & out, even at the cost of a good position at the feed trough...
...gets ideas out of his system on the wrongs of this world which indicate that he must have been a great rebel at heart but lacking moral courage. . . . The newspapers of today are full of high-wire walkers like the Runyon of Short Takes . . . he is a hired Hessian of the typewriter ... a disguised defeatist...
...consulted her mother-in-law, Princess Margareta, of the German House of Hesse, about the sentimental privilege. The 74-year-old sister of Kaiser Wilhelm II had hesitated; there were complications. Friedrichshof, her turreted, 80-room castle near the Hessian town of Kronberg, was overrun with American officers who seemed to be using it for a Bierhalle while she existed in an eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried...
...Lichfield Trial (TIME, Feb. 25) went on the road. From London, where it had been a one-ring circus, it was transferred to Bad Nauheim. Along the roads leading to the Hessian spa were signs in the shaving-cream tradition: "Five miles to Lichfield trials," "Four miles. . . ," etc. In the streets, there was more glittering brass than could be found anywhere outside the Pentagon...
...first lands him in the Army - at Valley Forge. His schoolbook hindsight of the Delaware Crossing interests General Washington profoundly. Disguised as a yokel, he also checks up on the taffy-wigged, beet-nosed Hessians in the Trenton Bierstube. By the time he faces a Hessian firing squad, the genie suddenly transplants him spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus...