Word: oswald
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage, its burnished discs blazing in the spotlight. Before it, in slinky black gown and monkey-fur jacket, swayed a woman whose saucer eyes, blazing teeth, and hair like a jackpot of fresh-minted pennies made her look remarkably like Harpo Marx. A friendly, arty-social audience applauded. Marianne Oswald, diseuse (singing actress), friend of intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic, was making her U. S. debut...
...American behavior . . . supporting Oswald Spengler's theory of Western decadence? Have a half-dozen decades of comparatively easy living so softened our pioneer spirit that we of the U. S. are proving ourselves to have been as little aware of the realities of German and Japanese social dynamics as the English Conservatives have proved themselves...
...Fish Caught. Seven thousand men and 3,500 women were interned as enemy aliens. The net thrown out for fifth columnists and quislings brought in some bigger fish, including Leader Sir Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists; Captain Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay, Conservative M. P. and ardent Hitlerite; onetime M. P. John Beckett, militant pacifist and nuisance (he once tried to steal the Speaker's mace in the House of Commons); Germany's master spy and saboteur in World War I, Captain Franz von Rintelen...
When police arrived at the "Black House" of Sir Oswald's British Union, they did not find the Führer himself, but eight black-shirted comrades who lined up and shouted "Hell Mosley!" before they were hustled off to Brixton Gaol. Married with Nazi pomp to Diana Guinness, sister of the Führer's bullet-punctured friend Unity Freeman-Mitford, with Hitler reported to have been best man. Sir Oswald recently celebrated "my forthcoming arrest" in a swank London restaurant. He was picked up at home and police were sent after his wife, who had headed...
According to German Philosopher Oswald Spengler (Decline of the West), civilizations are born and die like human beings, their average life-span about 1,500 years. One crusty old civilization that lived longer than Spengler's average was Persia's. In 4000 B. C. Persia got started. The Greeks and Romans, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, came & went, and still Persia was going strong. Not until the 18th Century, after some 6,000 continuous years of art, culture and prosperity, did Persia finally bite the dust. Even then it was European commercial competition, more than...