Word: human
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler, less explicit though not less vehement, declared: "It is not God who divides us, but human beings. . . . No power within or without the Reich will keep us from going our way to our Future...
...news if that nation were France, tourist playground of the world, synonym for good food and good service rewarded via the outstretched palm. Last week Léon Blum, reaching the end of his first year as Premier-a year which he said was notable for "the restoration of human dignity" in France-was out to make just such big news...
...rocket enthusiast . . . in an unguarded moment . . . might prophesy that we will eventually travel at speeds governed only by the acceleration which the human body can stand, and that in rocketing between America and Europe we will accelerate halfway across the ocean and decelerate during the other half. Or, he might even point his rocket toward another planet and, without regard to fuel supply, landing facilities, or Professor Goddard, lose himself in interstellar space...
...prolog, a whip-cracking circus-trainer introduced the principal characters as if they were animals. Lulu was a hideous, wriggling snake whose behavior carried over into her human incarnation in the three main acts. Nearly everybody in the cast had a turn at her favors. Dr. Goll died of apoplexy when he caught her cheating. An idealistic painter killed himself upon hearing about her past. A feeble old lecher named Schön married her. When he surprised her with his son, Schön gave Lulu a revolver with which to kill herself. Lulu shot him instead...
...each pair, the problem might have been passed on to the Immigration Service. As it was, the ears were to be imported unattached. After thumbing many documents and consulting the Public Health Service and the Post Office Department, the Customs Bureau decided that Chinese ears, in fact any unattached human ears, might be imported free of duty in refrigerated packages, but that they might not be sent through the mails...