Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragedy, as I see it, is that this operation was not an intelligent inquiry into the fitness of a teacher (something which is always in order) but a Bible-belt and anti-foreigner witch hunt. The forces which hate the foreigner, hate the English, etc., etc., were loosed. I disagree with Russell's contention that morals are entirely your own business, because nothing can be entirely your own business if you are a part of any social group. But I do think he would have been harmless as a mathematics professor. Those higher mathematicians I've seen...
...much of the inside story of the Habsburgs, she was plagued by publishers, syndicates, authors' agents, cinema representatives with fantastic offers. But with wonderful loyalty she refused them all, lived off occasional sales of the Gobelins, pictures, china, and jewels the Emperor had given her (once, after a hunt, he had sent her a boar dressed up in necklaces, earrings, diamond bracelets). She made only one important revelation: in 1931 she made it clear that the mysterious double death of the Archduke Rudolf and his beautiful Baroness Maria Vetsera at the famed hunting lodge at Mayerling was definitely suicide...
About 15 persons with eight planes are expected to compete in the various events, which include acrobatics, spot landings, precision maneuvers, bombing with flour sacks, and a navigation contest. A novel event is the observation hunt in which the pilots and observers are shown a spot on the map which they must find and photograph. The first pair back with the pictures wins...
...other of the warring powers were sentenced last week as spies. Last fortnight, the French destroyer Forbin dramatically overhauled the Portuguese steamer Lima off Lisbon to lay hands on one Lola Schroeter, 20, wanted in Paris on spy charges. But World War II's greatest spy hunt was under way last week in Great Britain, pressed by Scotland Yard, the Army and Navy intelligence services and a special division of the Home Office...
...walks of life. Only casual tab was kept on them. Restrictions on their activities were slight. Among the harmless, pitiable many were a sly, scheming few who have since served the German cause by getting employment near military centres or in war industries. Britain's huge new spy hunt involves checking up on domestic servants, railroad, shipyard and hospital employes; on aliens who have started nightclubs in London's West End, where service men on leave, their tongues loosened on "bottle parties," are prone to speak too freely. As an example to tighten British tongues and defeat...