Word: splendide
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fate of the great European collections U.S. zoomen can only shake sad heads. In London poisonous snakes have been put to death lest they get loose during an air attack. But conditions are nowhere so bad as during the siege of Paris in 1870. Then the beasts in the splendid Jardin des Plantes were butchered for food. Lion, elephant and hippopotamus meat sold for $5 a pound, was hard to get even at that...
...brushing his hands, Mr. Welles then produced a balloon from his pocket-a trial balloon for a new (and New Deal) League of Nations after the war. Said he: "At the end of the last war, a great President of the United States gave his life ... to further ... the splendid vision of ... an ordered world, governed by law. ... I am unalterably convinced: First, that the abolition of offensive armaments . . . can only be undertaken through some rigid form of international . . . control . . . and, second, that no peace . . . would be valid or lasting unless it established . . . the natural rights of all peoples...
...MONSTROUS AND STUNTED. LET ME SUGGEST THAT SUCH PHRASES AS "SMALLISH," "MINUTE," "MINIATURE" AND EVEN "POCKET-SIZE" BILLY ROSE WOULD BE CONSIDERABLY MORE APPETIZING. OF COURSE, IF YOUR MIND IS MADE UP, I ASSURE YOU THAT I WOULD RATHER BE LABELED "DWARFISH" THAN NOT BE MENTIONED IN YOUR SPLENDID MAGAZINE AT ALL. KINDEST REGARDS...
...pictures appearing on these pages -published for the first time outside of France-are from the walls of a cavern near Montignac, Dordogne, a limestone region where many similar, though less splendid, prehistoric finds have been made...
...Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized what democratic scientists had long pointed out, that "racial theory and evolutionary theory are incompatible and bluntly contradictory." So the Nazis "plugged" a different theory-a theory of creation, according to which man developed suddenly during some splendid Wagnerian cataclysm which thrust lower organisms into a new environment where only those creatures survived who modified themselves through sheer force of will power...