Word: seidlitz
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...column. It began digging around for quotable puffs, had trouble finding any. Few people had ever said anything good about Pegler, who so seldom has anything good to say about anyone else. Finally, at the syndicate's prodding, Pegler remembered that "an old geezer named 'Seidlitz"-meaning, as everybody knew, of course, Literary Critic Henry Seidel Canby-had once cast him a few pearls of praise...
...speed up the process, the Russians put Walther von Seidlitz, a German general captured at Stalingrad, before a microphone, authorized him to offer favorable terms of surrender. Said Seidlitz: ". . . you are faced with catastrophe. There is no more hope of relief. . . . [Germany] will be grateful for [your] capitulation and will recognize it as manly, honorable and soldierlike...
Peace without Calamity? From Moscow came news that four German generals and more than 100 other Wehrmacht officers, mostly captured at Stalingrad, had formed a German Officers' Union; that General of Artillery Walther von Seidlitz had been elected its president. Just as the Soviet Union Government had indirectly sponsored the parent. National Free Germany Committee and its manifesto proposing a democratic, capitalistic postwar Germany (TIME, Aug. 30), so the Soviet Union Government last week sponsored the Officers' Union and its declaration. That declaration, printed in Pravda and broadcast from Moscow, told Wehrmacht leaders, in effect, how they might...
...behind high-stepping horses drawing ornate equipages from which tall-hatted coachmen and footmen surveyed their surroundings with a truly devastating scorn." For three years Harold Ickes glared at "the intangible ingredients out of which a careful architect was to build a robust curmudgeonly character." He learned to mix Seidlitz powders in such a way that a glassful would explode "into the nostrils and the eyes" of a customer he disliked...
...best limerick is on the front cover. The best advertisement is on the back cover. The best poem is Colonel House's auto-eulogy. The best joke is the one about the inebriate and the soap advertisement. As the drug clerk said of the seidlitz powder, it isn't half...
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