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...made that era vanished with it. Benito Mussolini, Italy's self-styled Man of Destiny, died ignominiously and was hung by his heels like a slaughtered pig alongside the body of his mistress. Adolf Hitler, Man of 1938, died by his own hand, also with his mistress, in the rubble of Berlin. Or did he die? Dead or alive, it did not much matter; Adolf Hitler, the force, had perished...
...gave me my coat and hat, and in a glow of self-satisfaction I walked out into the night. 'A delightful evening,' I reflected, 'the nicest kind of people. What I said about finance and philosophy impressed them; and how they laughed when I imitated a pig squealing...
...arsenal of the Empire Canada had produced 16,200 aircraft, 28,000 heavy field and naval guns, 1,500,000 machine guns and rifles, 8,000 ships, 800,000 vehicles, ammunition in the millions of rounds. To turn out these and scores of other items, Canada had doubled pig-iron production, tripled non-ferrous metal production, increased chemical manufacturing 233%. Said Howe with pride: "This unprecedented expansion . . . has resulted in manufacturing becoming the leading industry of the country . . , [and] on a production rather than an assembly basis." Turning to peacetime production, he pointed out that the Government had spent...
There were things to be said on both sides; there were excuses and rationalizations. But the ugly fact was that the behavior of many G.I.s in Europe was disgraceful. It was not just that there were rights in the Place Pigalle (which G.I.s call "Pig Alley") and fights on the waterfront of Le Havre. It was not just holdups here and drunkenness and rowdyism there...
Never was a guinea pig more warmly welcomed. For 20 months young Henley lay on his back, while the daring Lister torturously scraped the infected foot bones with antisepticized instruments. To the general astonishment, gangrene failed to set in. When the scraping was successfully finished, the patient sat up and called for pencil and paper. Soon the editor of London's Cornhill Magazine began publishing Henley's In Hospital-a series of poems which concluded with the now-famed Invictus...