Word: shafted
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...hail-fellowship and a reassuring, yeoman love of King and Country that was truly British. This man-to-man meeting occurred in Connaught Square at the unveiling of the Canadian national war memorial. There was a reveille, the King placed a wreath at the foot of the shaft, tall redcoats holding standards stepped away, and the memorial was unveiled. The King spoke, with what some thought was a hint to Rome and Berlin...
...this is of academic interest to Harvard, no more. Cambridge students might conceivably applaud the crusading "News" for its sensational controversy, and might further suggest that this portrait of the typical Yale man be entombed with sundry other material in the steel shaft down at Oglethorpe which is to be opened in the year 8000. Beyond this, the big fight reminds them of tempests and teapots. Harvard men, with their much publicized and smugly-prized indifference, fall off of the other side of the wall. Which is the worse is a decision for the gods. Mortals can hope, however...
...swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...
Frenchmen Herr Hitler likes, it was a distinct compliment to get a look at it. It took 3,000 workmen months to dig the road, bore the tunnel and shaft and build the Führer's mountain eyrie. The cost ran into millions of marks...
...more lonely than Nazi lore has pictured him to be. Rumor has it that he built the Adlerhorst as a mausoleum. Other theories have it that here he intends to write a new, great German philosophy or finish the sequel to Mein Kampf. To a psychoanalyst Hitler's shaft would be an obvious symbol of impotence; to psychiatrists the desire to be so completely alone would stamp him as a schizoid (split) personality. The ordinary schizoid who cannot build a lonely house occasionally withdraws into his own shell and refuses to speak or deal with other people. Perhaps more...