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General Kurt Daleuge: The World is hostile to Germany only because it is jealous of the German people for possessing Adolf Hitler. General Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia (after wrecking his sports car last week and going to a hospital, as did the fraulein with him): In the higher sense of true Prussianism there is no more genuine Prussian than our Reichsfuhrer [Realmleader], Adolf Hitler [who is Austrian by birth]. . . . The Prussian idea of the state and its eternal ethics has been spread by him throughout all Germany. . . . Hindenburg was the incarnation of the highest ideals. In Hitler...
...night of the banquet, Cellini's affairs have gotten out of hand. Alessandro, who wants Angela at the banquet, introduces her as Cellini's mistress. Furiously jealous, the Duchess puts poison in Cellini's wine. Cellini gives the wine to a courtier he dislikes, pretends to be dead until the Duchess, overcome with remorse, embraces him upon the floor. An accident restores Cellini to complete control of the scandalous situation. Angela calls the Duke by his pet name, causing the Duchess to perceive that her husband has been unfaithful. At the end of The Affairs of Cellini, the goldsmith...
John's new love is a quiet schoolteacher, whose job depends on her respectability. Mary's lover Martin, an announcer of the British Broadcasting Corp., has also to be above suspicion. Just once, however, Martin and Mary are tempted beyond their strength. A jealous woman writes an anonymous letter to the King's Proctor. Detectives investigate and Mary's decree is rescinded. Since both have been convicted of adultery neither she nor John can ever be divorced. She would live in sin with her ex-announcer, but poor respectable John would never get his schoolteacher...
...track team and made another speech. In a corner sat a newshawk for the Swedish sports journal Idrottsbladet, taking down his words. What the reporter thought he heard the Minister say made headlines next day in Idrottsbladet. It was: "Be on your watch. The Swedes are a jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth...
...with the long shadows of a late afternoon sun. Franklin D. Roosevelt was going down to the sea. Going down with him were his wife, his four sons, newshawks, secret service men, many an official friend. Notably absent was his gruff, wrinkle-faced little No. 1 secretary, friend and jealous counselor, Louis McHenry Howe, who lay doubled up with a chronic stomach ailment on his White House bed. Goodbys were said on the dock of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Then the President & party stalked up the gangplank of the destroyer Gilmer and she stood away, down the Severn...