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Bright, but secret, Brother of mankind, Whom we imagined in the reckless void; Here in the broken bodies of our sons We see at last what was invisible- The remaining hope that animates the world, The brotherhood of all men, everywhere...
...London cabby is a very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...
...planned to keep the boys in uniform because the New Deal is "afraid of the peace." By now, said Candidate Roosevelt, the Murray-George bill, the statements by OWM Boss Jimmy Byrnes and the War Department should have proved the falseness of this charge. "It seems a pity that reckless words, based on unauthoritative sources, should be used to mislead and weaken morale...
...Smith's philosophy was squarely at odds with the reckless public attitudes of his great years. He was devoutly religious, a family man who never went into nightclubs. The jazz age never won him away from songs like the Mulligan Guards. He toiled stubbornly for social reform. His life story had the old Horatio Alger plot. He was a poor East Side boy with an Irish gift for politics and people, who made good against tremendous odds...
...surrender." But veterans popped up again in strange places, such as the Brandenburg Canoe Club and the Association of Prussian Stamp Collectors. Nazi leaders vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received 198,371 Tyrolean hats, Russia got 16 Ukrainian ikons, France 1,835 empty champagne bottles and a heap of silk stockings full of runs...