Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week changed his name for religious reasons, Eugenio Pacelli. While the series was in progress, Walter's friend, Russian Pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, was imprisoned on charges of espionage. Gabrilowitsch got a message to Walter, who spoke to Pacelli, who whispered in someone's ear. In not much more time than it takes to play a Bruckner symphony, Gabrilowitsch was free...
Pretext for the ban was an article accused of slandering Italy's celebrated crippled poet, Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837). The author of the piece, a young Italian critic who had dug up. much new material on Leopardi, admitted, the poet was "never very strong," but suggested that Leopardi's poor health may have been aggravated by his passion for ice cream...
...worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...whole people, but unless you do you cannot start a war against them. For the common people on both sides in the World War, that lesson seemed bitterly evident for all time. Today it is apparently being forgotten all over again. Few men-in-the-street nowadays make much distinction between Hitler and the German people. For the majority, all Germans are 100% Nazi goosesteppers...
...East of Eden, the best that can be said is that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years...