Word: saws
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
When Mrs. Lawson died a year later, Gladys went on alone. Once her converts were formed into groups, Gladys Aylward, who belongs to no denomination, saw to it that they joined the nearest Christian mission. Some became Baptists, some Methodists. Says she: "I work kind of alongside everyone. We're all after the one thing-souls for Jesus Christ. I don't care if they're sprinkled or immersed...
...felt a little foolish bustling down the street all dressed in black on that hot day in 1927. But he felt more foolish still when he saw the tall young man in tennis flannels who opened the door of the dean's house...
...such a world, as Hutchins saw it, education had been split into specialized fields in which chemists could not speak to lawyers and hardly anyone was speaking to God, in which everything was a matter of opinion and each opinion was as important as every other. "It has become the fashion," he once told his students, "to be bewildered...
...Time for Christmas. The full-length portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt is the picture that dominates the book. "I did not want my husband to be President," she states, probably to the surprise of thousands. "As I saw it, this meant the end of any personal life of my own . . . The turmoil in my heart and mind was rather great." Nonetheless, "I never mentioned my feelings on the subject...