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...maggot-ridden yet, Hoffman went back downtown, inspected the empty floors in the Maiatico Building, ate a peanut-butter sandwich in a nearby pharmacy, and met reporters again in his old State Department building offices. A French reporter asked him for a word for Europe. Said Hoffman promptly: "The only reason I'm in this damn job is that I have good will for Europe...
...ghosts of Ruddigore had shouted: "Coward, poltroon, shaker, squeamer, blockhead, sluggard, dullard, dreamer, shirker, shuffler, crawler, creeper, sniffler, snuffler, waller, weeper, earthworm, maggot, tadpole, weevil...
Daveron, who knew the jungles, stepped in. First, he set up a mule hospital, treated maggot-infested wounds (from sharp jungle grass) with crude-oil rubs. With local gauchos he rounded up the strays and drove the troop to better pasture...
...William Heelis, a gentle, retiring country lawyer. Mr. Potter was furious, but from then on, says Author Lane, Beatrix "deliberately buried Miss Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard...
...shots-90% from newsreels and confiscated enemy films-rise to levels of tragic poetry (a drum-deafened sequence of hordes of marching Axis children, youths, men in uniform, and the dazed faces of their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views...