Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bill Gropper married Bacteriologist Sophie Frankle. The two of them built their own nine-room stone house ("bourgeois as hell") at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Soon after their marriage they had a year in Russia, where Gropper worked briefly on Pravda (official organ of the Communist Party), learned to call electric lights "Lenin lamps," had a grand time. Gene, their elder boy, was born in Paris on the return trip. To the New Masses went a cartoon by Artist Morris Pass of the proud father wheeling Gene in a baby carriage. Caption: "Made...
Granted, you're no house organ for any institutions or individuals which you may meet, and that you owe the citizens of Ohio and our far-flung graduate body (42,000, thousands of whom are your readers) no obligation to make them feel good by "constructive" writing. But it might be argued that you owe your subjects a fair break, and it certainly is argued that you owe your readers an honest and workmanlike job of reporting...
...sexy, Jew-hating, frankly brutal sheet is Das Schwarze Korps (the Black Guard), official organ of Nazi Germany's blackshirt, elite SS Guards. Publisher is Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief. Its editor is blond, cold, handsome Gunter d'Alquen, 29, a onetime newspaperman on Berlin's important Völkischer Beobachter...
...heart is a strong and tough muscle, he explained, and not delicate like the brain or liver. "It has been too much feared and coddled simply because it does happen to be the most vital organ," he stated...
...German generals who are known to have obstructed Adolf Hitler's plans for a westward Blitzkrieg last autumn. Promptly. Col. General Walther von Brauchitsch, Commander in Chief of the Armies, affirmed the military's allegiance in an article for the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi Party organ. Wrote he: "Whoever is National Socialist follows Frederician soldierdom...