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...renew NRA. The huge Senate caucus room was jam-packed to the doors with twittery spectators. The onetime NRAdministrator looked as tired and bleary-eyed as he did in the late summer of 1933: he had just spent three driving days, three sleepless nights preparing a 20,000-word manuscript on NRA's merits and demerits. And when he hunched himself forward in the witness chair, cocked his spectacles on his nose and began to read his statement, his words crackled and thundered with oldtime gusto. Excerpts...
...method of his teaching, as it lives in my own memory, seems to me to have been more like a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match than like ordinary instruction. What happened was that you were summoned to his chambers in Hollis and told to bring with you your manuscript. You were told how to read what you had written. Soon you began to feel that out of the darkness all around you long fingers were searching through the layers of fat and fluff to find your bones and muscles underneath. You could fight back but eventually he stripped...
Hams, Jokes, Diadems. At the jolly champagne wedding breakfast Best Man Hitler seemed as much out of things as he always does at a party. Wedding gifts ranged from dozens of Westphalian hams to the manuscript of Arabella presented by Opera Composer Richard Strauss. No. 1 Nazi Jew-baiter Julius Streicher, who always does the odd thing, presented a huge volume which he said contains all jokes current in Germany about the bridegroom. Eccentric Rear Admiral von Levetzow, Berlin Police Chief, gave "a fragment of a shell fired at Jutland," but rich Germans currying favor piled up $400,000 worth...
...compilation of the first volume has been extremely difficult. No printed works of reference dating from the period exist and the manuscript records in many cases are incomplete or missing. It is impossible, for example, to say with certainty who among the Bishops sat in Parliament, and it is known that many of the Peers were not summoned to sit when they belonged to the 'wrong party...
...death he cautiously left unpublished a lengthy Latin treatise, De Doctrina Christiana, "a refutation of the Trinity, of Monogamy, of the absolute Creator, even of the immortal soul." When Charles II was restored, Milton hurriedly got rid of a mass of incriminating papers, including the dangerous De Doctrina. The manuscript eventually found its way to the Record Office, lay there forgotten until 1823, when it was discovered and translated. But so firmly fixed is Milton's reputation as a Calvinist poet, says Belloc. that even now few people know that Milton put himself on record for polygamy, definitive death...