Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German editors who have not even dared hint the split between Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the No. 2 Nazi, bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, at last had something they could print last week. Herr Hitler had omitted General Göring from the list of high officials to whom he sent New Year's greetings, and Premier Göring had snubbed the Chancellor in kind. Berlin rocked at the news...
...that Germany's Supreme Court could not do less last week than order death for the five defendants in the Reichstag fire trial as all five were Communists of sorts. "The Reichstag fire is the most shameful crime in all history," declared Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring two days before the Supreme Court's verdict was expected. "The prisoners who sit in the dock at Leipzig are far worse than ordinary criminals!" That clinched the death sentences in the minds of simple Storm Troopers. Few of them knew or cared that State Prosecutor Karl Werner, after...
...coins of ancient Greece and the nations who traded with her. Another prize was a broad-browed, calm-eyed marble bust of Augustus, first Roman Emperor, intact except for the tip of the nose. Still another was a Mycenaean sepulchre containing a "very unusual" gold signet ring and three skeletons. On the site of old Corinth, Princeton's Professor Richard Stillwell was excited when he uncovered a mosaic floor 31 by 24 ft., laid by Romans of the empire period. Its central panel depicted a palm-bearing athlete and a seated figure of Eutychia. In the nearby temple...
...might be as perfect and "invisible" a projection of the narrative fact as a stripped style. But considering the atmosphere which contemporary writers have to re-create or be silent, it is probably the best available medium. For her mastery of it Mrs. Parker ought to be remembered with Ring Lardner. It is true that absolute objectivity, for all but the greatest writers, is an impossible attitude to maintain, and Mrs. Parker does not always maintain it. But by the time the reader becomes conscious that Mrs. Parker is grinning derisively at her characters as she writes, he realizes that...
...reviewer's point of view, since it yields up no ponderous cosmology, no bone of contention with which he may take issue. Accepted for what it is, however, the book makes excellent fire-side reading. Most of the narratives are well chosen, and in many cases they have the ring of truth. In selecting them, Yeats-Brown has wisely avoided the glossy newness of the recent past, and, by temperate use of the editorial pencil, has preserved that quaintness of style which lends glamour to the adventurers of another...