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...successively the home of the Ohio Mechanics Society and a popular bawdyhouse. No whit discouraged, Thomas Trollope set to work erecting a new folly - this time, an eight-volume encyclopedic history of the world's monasteries and convents, "with all their orders and subdivisions." The family began to sicken and starve. Frances Trollope decided that only she could save...
Berlin was kaputt. Always an ugly city, it was now uglier rubble. From its stones, and from the torture-chamber prison camps all over Germany, the stench of Naziism rose to sicken the civilized world (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...might not have been a way to avoid it. TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod, who has seen many a U.S. fighting man fall on Pacific isles, radioed: "We had to have this island, regardless of casualties. Jap strategy all along has been to send U.S. casualties soaring until the Americans sicken of the war and call it off. I do not believe any method of any man could have lessened the cost. I once wrote that there would be many more Tarawas before this bloody Pacific war is won, and that the casualties would try American souls...
...unless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer wakes up to the fact that even the sweetest flower of spring--or the biggest box office in cinema citizenry--may sicken and wilt like the leaves of yesteryear, Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon will soon be out looking for employment of a different sort...
...Profane. The strongest impression communicated by December 7 is that the Japanese attack, coming when it did, calculated to stun and sicken the people by outraging the season that stands for a symbol of peace, to wreak the maximum psychological havoc by undoing a time so beloved and gracious, unleashed emotions with which both the friends and enemies of democracy will have to reckon in the future. There was a telephone call to a Minneapolis radio station: "Why those sons of bitches!" There was a Kansas hunter: "I guess our hunting will be confined to those God damned slant-eyed...