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Individually most of my countrymen are too honest and too inept to filch anything smaller than the moomoo's egg. Nationally Bulgaria has never shone in the badger game of territorial expansion...
...bright with flags, and a detachment of Mobile Guards was waiting. On the eve of the Ambassador's arrival a French newspaper had warned him that he need not think he could change French foreign policy, especially as it affected Nazi Germany. But, instead of blackout, lights shone brilliantly on all the snow-covered streets to the U. S. Embassy, and the welcome was warm...
Last week the sedate lights of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall shone on a well-polished bald head, which bobbed and weaved over the assorted pates of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Now & then the glabrous dome would shake like a furiously boiling egg, starting a corporeal tremolo through the whole lean, ascetic body. Long arms and clenched fists flailed high & low. It was a sight to see. And from the Philharmonic this flailing and shaking drew the most satisfactory and exciting sounds since the days of Arturo Toscanini...
Through the murk of biased reporting on both sides, just one fact shone bright as an ancient Greek fire beacon. Adolf Hitler has an unearthly way, not only of beating his enemies, but of getting his allies into embarrassing wars which make his own successes seem greater. Winter in Finland and the rainy season in Greece were two good examples...
Dale H. Maple, 20, is a clean-cut U. S. boy, with hazel eyes, white, even teeth, a firm, straight jaw. Born in San Diego, Calif, to middle-class U. S. parents, he went to San Diego High School, shone in his studies, showed talent in music. A devout Catholic, he attended church every Sunday. In school he studied German, became interested in German culture. He graduated from high school...