Word: musse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he took offense at a natty, well-manicured prisoner in the police lineup, issued a famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force...
...Germans have pictures of their families, the Goethe deathmask and Varga girls. They decorate their mess halls with elaborate paintings-the Alps, German heroes, busty girls. Across one day room an artist has painted a group of naked women, on the wall opposite the stern admonition "Ein guter Soldat muss verzichten koennen." (A good soldier must learn to do without...
...late. When he arrived at Manchester, the last bus had gone. Through the blackout, with air-raid sirens wailing, he walked four miles home. His family had all but given him up. The children, Joyce, 8, Frank, 7, had been put to bed. Lily, his wife, unwilling to muss her new marcel wave before he saw it, waited, and kept ready...
...Blut muss fliessen...
...Blut muss fliessen...