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...political history have seemed so uninfluential. Of 40 Congressional candidates he blasted at in 1938, 39 were promptly elected; in Pennsylvania his support was politically fatal. Yet John Llewellyn Lewis, 60, shag mane, miner's pallor, pompous oratory and all, might be a forceful, effective, and sur prisingly conservative President...
...Fear will be hovering above the person's head and the bed upon which he is resting might be transformed into the automobile he was driving when an accident occurred. All elements of natural law and human reason are distorted. In many respects, Futurism is quite similar to Sur-realism...
...democracies, who have always officially believed the Aggrandizer's words rather than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...
...largest camps are situated on a treeless sandy beach just north of the Spanish border near Argeles-sur-Mer and St. Cyprien. They are enclosed by barbed wire, guarded every 20 feet by a Senegalese soldier. Inside the wire the camps are like some fantastically huge hobo jungle. Only a few refugees have roofs over their heads; the great majority dig holes in the sand and cover themselves with dirty sheets, blankets or coats they managed to carry out with them. Many sleep in the open, rain or shine. Icy sea winds blow the sand continually. Most of the refugees...
...carat Koh-i-Nur diamond for Her Majesty to wear at the Paris Opera. Two Scotland Yardmen were deemed enough to guard the Crown jewels, plus 50 blue trunks and pieces of luggage, each lettered in gold, THE KING. Their Majesties left the channel port of Boulogne-sur-Mer by special train for Paris over a cleared track guarded by 50,000 French troops...