Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Father Frederick was still in Paris last week, confounding Fascists and having the time of his life. Son David and Nephew Jimmy left Spain last autumn, Jimmy to marry lovely, dark-headed Actress Mary Liles in Manhattan...
...sharp contrast save for their opposition to Adolf Hitler. One of them, Pope Pius XI, 81, spoke with "bitter sadness" of Italy's anti-Semitic laws, the harrying of Italian Catholic Action groups, the reception Mussolini gave Hitler last May, declared sadly: "We have offered our now old life for the peace and prosperity of peoples. We offer it anew." By spending most of the year in a concentration camp, Protestant Pastor Martin Niemoller gave courageous witness to his faith...
...failure. Brilliant, charming, cosmopolitan Vienna he learned to loathe for what he called its Semitism; more to his liking was homogeneous Munich, his real home after 1912. To this man of no trade and few interests the Great War was a welcome event which gave him some purpose in life. Corporal Hitler took part in 48 engagements, won the German Iron Cross (first class), was wounded once and gassed once, was in a hospital when the Armistice of November 11, 1918 was declared...
...real life, Mrs. Charles Laughton...
Melvin Attig worked hard to overcome Oswegans' animosity. He sang in a church choir, won so many friends that he was elected president of the Oswego Business Men's Club. But at school life was less smooth. Egged on by some still resentful parents, rowdy boys cut Principal Attig's telephone wires, strewed his papers, fired his wastebasket. unhinged doors. All this Principal Attig bore patiently. He cracked no heads, said nothing to parents or school board, tried to solve his problem alone. He also refused a better job. remarking grimly: "I must stay and give Oswego...