Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beastly. In Oslo. Norway the Norwegian Society for the Protection of Animals made violent objection to the practice of calling war criminals "beasts," suggested they be called "devils" instead...
...Other fleeting impressions: the formality of relationship between ranks; inferior administrative organization as compared to ours; singing while drilling; greater emphasis on automatic fire in the infantry; wearing of medals instead of ribbons; absence of signs indicating the particular units stationed in the vicinity, which are very conspicuous with us; absence of unit insignia on uniforms; friendliness towards us personally; the enthusiastic greetings of Czechs in the Russian zone when they recognized our uniforms. Take these for what they are worth...
...every U.S. citizen, as well as to every statesman, the victory of peace had a solemn urgency it had never had before. In London, Winston Churchill said: "We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among nations and that, instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, they may become the perennial fountain of world prosperity...
...Instead of smalltime bylines, American Weekly will henceforth parade such high-priced talent as Fannie Hurst, John Erskine, Paul Gallico, Damon Runyon, et al, from Hearst's Cosmopolitan circuit...
...years Goddard held up to his staff the one perfect American Weekly headline: NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO FRONT DOOR. Porter, who wrote that headline, says: "Nowadays we don't nail people's heads to doors - unless, of course, it happened." Instead, Porter has found that the prosaic household hints in the back pages draw better. Best draw of all is plastic surgery. Says Porter drily: "From where I sit, it seems that no one in America likes his own face." Hearst's Concern. The American Weekly's world of tomorrow probably will never...