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...message: TAKE COURAGE ONE CAN ... The message is interrupted by the muffled noises of guards beating someone; there are no more taps. With no explanation, Kassner is suddenly released, after what seemed a lifetime but turns out to have been only nine days. He gathers that some nameless comrade has given himself up as Kassner, has doubtless already been beaten to death or shot. Given 48 hours to leave Germany, Kassner has one chance of getting safely away: a rickety plane piloted by a fellow-Communist. Though the weather is so stormy that all passenger planes are grounded, they take...
...list of Station WABC's evening programs, found Boake Carter at 7:45, Cordell Hull at 8:30, Walter O'Keefe at 9, Ed Wynn at 9:30. The program note for 10:45: "Talk." American readers able to put two & two together, however, guessed the nameless speaker's identity from the spluttering and fuming against him in their paper's editorial and news columns...
Only once removed from genuine productive scholarship is a young professor of the history department, who for obvious reasons must be nameless. Besides a unique unconsciousness he is chiefly known for his talented wife whose work in the field of eighteenth century poetry has brought her a significant degree of fame in literary circles...
...fear. The carrying out of the laws of the land as enacted by the Congress requires protection until final adjudication by the highest tribunal of the land. The Congress has the right and can find the means to protect its own prerogatives." '1 recommend." Having thus belabored the nameless forces which will oppose his re-election tooth " nail this autumn, the President calmed down for a summary look at the state of the nation: "We approach a balance of the national budget. [Applause, first of the evening from Republicans] National income increases. Tax receipts, based on that income, increase...
...manifest that we are confronted with the task of first construing 'and/or,' that befuddling, nameless thing, that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to express his precise meaning, or too dull to know what he did mean, now commonly used by lawyers in drafting legal documents, through carelessness or ignorance or as a cunning device to conceal rather than express meaning with view to furthering the interest of their clients. We have ever observed the 'thing' in statutes, in the opinions...