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...took command of the First Army District, became a pillar of conservatism in the East Prussian Junker milieu, a loyal follower of archconservative General Werner von Fritsch. General von Brauchitsch did not oppose the Nazis; he snubbed them as upstarts. But to appease the old-line Army caste, Hitler made him Commander in Chief with Cabinet Minister rank...
...detective story"), Phelps added the seductions of wit† and a stock of anecdotes about literary greats he had known (Galsworthy, Barrie, Maeterlinck, Conrad, Shaw, et al.). To critical literary contemporaries, Phelps was a sinner who had stopped to look back at the Victorian Age and turned to a pillar of saccharine. Said unruffled Billy Phelps: "The most important emotion to preserve in maturity [is] the enjoyment of enjoyment." His warm enthusiasms and wide friendships helped many a man to do just that...
...journalism. His column is written in what O'Nolan describes as "socalled English" three days of the week; in "the kingly and melodious Irish" on the other three. It is as atmospheric of Dublin as the flower-&-vegetable women of Moore Street, or the giant Nelson's pillar which keeps a bleak eye socket on the drizzled city. Because he works as Assistant Principal, Local Government and Public Health officer all week, O'Nolan writes all six columns on Sunday...
...twin pillars of a sound colonial policy, Colonel Stanley observed weightily, are "educational advance and economic development." To strengthen the first pillar, he proposed to set up 30 annual two-year scholarships for promising colonials. To stiffen the second, he recommended fostering "secondary industries [for] processing native products [and] simple manufacturing, not requiring the import of large quantities of raw materials ... to make the colonies self-supporting." However, Britain would still draw semi-finished goods from the colonies for her specialized industries...
...checked. The needle would never stop. She was well down in the danger zone when she pulled up. "The pressure squeezed down on the hull, feeling cunningly for some weakness. . . . Loud noises issued from the metal. . . . The startled eyes of the men watched a four-inch solid pillar start to bend as the weight of the sea pressed down on the hull. One of the motors began to whine eerily. . . . For ten minutes the hydrophone operator heard the sound of ships near by, then the sounds faded, and the Clyde moved up to a safer depth and stole...