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...World War I, turned up behind the western front, trying to save his hometown, Halle, from Major General Terry Allen's attack. Previously reported as 1) an active Nazi and 2) in the party's bad graces because of his friendship for America, he exclaimed: "By Jove! I haven't been so happy since I ran the British blockade of 1916!" But General Allen's only terms were unconditional surrender, and three days later Halle fell...
...Jove is Sore. There was apparently some personal animus in Petrillo's war against Interlochen. Dr. Maddy had persuaded the U.S. Senate to pass a bill prohibiting interference with the broadcasting of noncommercial, educational or cultural programs...
...Jove," he said with enthusiasm, "it must be beautiful there now-the brown leaves falling from the trees-and the ivy all scarlet...
Millais himself became president of the Royal Academy. "I've had a good time, my boy," he said just before his death, "I have no enemies, there's no man with whom I would not shake hands-except one, and by Jove! I should like to shake him by the hand now." He meant Rossetti...
...deals with certain aspects of human frailty in the Rome of Emperor Nero's time. This provides Author Carter, who wrote the play while studying for a graduate degree at Harvard, with an opportunity to mix Roman and Christian mythology in such oaths as "I'll be Jove-damned...