Word: mortalities
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...listen; I have heard Lately a sound of breaking- I think, in the world's axle, Since all spins now so strangely. I have heard Certain shrieks in Europe no mortal man Can hear, and bear with calmness his mortality ; I have heard the bones of a Jew singing of Germany. . . . -But most I hear a sound like a watch ticking. You hear it not? -You pale in railway-stations, You haunted in offices, you waking, you a-dream-Yon hear it not? Go to, go to, you lie-The hand shifts, the weight falls, the wheels turn ticking...
...story of a woman's rescue from a Nazi concentration camp was bound to fit in beautifully with Hollywood's new taste for social significance; and filmed with the inimitable MGM touch of authenticity, it could not miss its mark. It did not, but neither did it displace "The Mortal Storm" as by far the most credible and exciting Nazi-blaster ever flashed across the American screen...
...Willkie family, under Herman Willkie, lawyer, book lover, Prussian-hater, had grown up in an atmosphere of argument that began when Father Willkie woke the boys with a bellowed quotation (a favorite of Lincoln's): "Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?" and lasted until the evening hour, when he would read to them from one of the 6,700 books that lined the spreading, maple-shaded house...
...Possible forerunners of a torrent of anti-Nazi films are three recent motion pictures: 1. The Mortal Storm; The Man I Married; Pastor Hall. 2. Waterloo Bridge; Fight for Life; Air Death. 3. Foreign Correspondent; To the Victor; Our Town. 4. Grey Legions ; Sky Hawks ; They Drive by Night. 5. After Bismarck; The Secret Weapon...
...Much has since gone under the bridge and now there is too much bitterness. The English are feeling, as in the last war, that the Germans are their mortal enemies...