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Starting from scratch again, but with confidence in his own spellbindery, Adolf Hitler slowly worked up the fantastic party he calls National Socialist, Nazi Fascist. Its program consists of stentorian appeals to every form of German prejudice. Essentially Nationalists and patrioteers, the Nazis insert "Socialist" into their party's name simply as a lure to discontented workers...
...short time." The course, therefore, has a significant purpose in this vicious world, and should consequently be inaugurated with a grand celibation. Perhaps it might even be attended with schemes for a House Plan and the necessary corporate personalities. But if it is to do anything but scratch the mater, the course must embrace a longer period than the average college half-course. For it will take a full course to prevent at least half of the male population from acting their customary role of suckers when they select their mate...
...Scratch a young, ambitious Japanese officer and find a fiercely devoted acolyte of austere, intense War Minister Sadao Araki. Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake. But Lieut.-General Araki sums up in his short, shrill self both Hodo and Bushido, the benevolent and conquering watchwords of Imperial Japan...
...motor car. She learns that he was a promising novelist until he inherited some money, quit work. He discovers that she is about to be married to a belted earl. So Pauline and Victor decide to forsake the world and its pomps, start all over from scratch. Then Victor writes a successful book, is rich once more. This time a little, not a motor, accident saves them from themselves...
Everyone knows that an etching is made by scratching lines through the wax "ground" on a copper plate with a needle, then biting the exposed lines into the plate by dipping it in a bath of nitric acid. Few people know that the etcher's needle should never scratch the plate itself (unless he is making a drypoint). Depth of line for increased blackness is all done by action of the acid. A goose feather is the best possible tool for brushing away microscopic gas bubbles while the plate is in the bath. Much of the effect of Whistler...