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This was the leonine roar of Benito Mussolini five years ago. By last week that roar had faded away to a mousy squeak. Britain's official London Gazette announced that the whole area formerly known as Italian East Africa was now in British hands...
...Tale. But he did not end his lecture as usual by marching up the aisle and uttering his last sentence at the door as the bell in Harvard Hall tolled the hour. Instead, he stood on the platform and said quietly, "We'll stop here." A roar of applause rolled over his bowed head. Then Kitty silently waved his students from the aisle and went...
Promptly came an assorted roar from the London press. While the Mirror screamed Right and the Times murmured Wrong, and Duff Cooper voiced approval of the broadcast, the public split neatly in three. Group One contended Wodehouse was an artist who shouldn't be held responsible; Group Two said Wodehouse was wrong indeed, but that attacks like Connor's were in execrable taste; Group Three was for more all-out acid-throwing instead of BBC's usual drawing-room argument...
That 30,000 U.S. workmen heard Lord Halifax and greeted him with thumbs up and a deafening roar of welcome was astonishing to people who have a doctrinaire view of the U.S. and of U.S. workmen. Lord Halifax, a fox hunter and a gentleman, is aristocracy, and a good example of it. But to New Deal theoreticians, he is a specimen of a declining class. Ever since he arrived in Washington, New Dealers have buzzed with stories of U.S. labor's animosity toward him. Even gentle Poet Carl Sandburg, who could hardly find a harsh word to say about...
...saloon." The light blinked out. Three miles out, Marines of the Fifth Regiment, roused from their crowded bunks, were piling over the side into pitching beach boats, settling their combat packs, fixing bayonets as they squatted down. An hour after the light had blinked its message, the muted roar of 1,500-horsepower engines overtoned the growl of the waves. The boats were in the surf; men with their rifles held high piled into the water...