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...columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed which excited correspondents called "lightning"-actually about 50 miles in one day, which is excellent for tanks and lorries moving through mountain country if the retreating defenders...
...part, however small or large, of an institution . . . where there is noblesse oblige on the part of the master and fealty on the part of the man. Feudal the Times-Star may be, but its feudalism needs no apologist. . . . Without humility, we are grateful for the fine conditions that surround...
...since 1924 no Democratic convention promised to be so exciting; since 1916 no election appeared to be so close. Of so many candidates, so many leaders, none was really inconceivable as a U. S. President. Buckle on the weakest the diamond-studded championship belt, surround him with patronage, brass bands and ceremony, show him intent up to his knees in a trout stream, give him powerful speeches to make-and there would go the 33rd President of the U. S., beloved of the people until he tries to do or fails to do what he promised. The visible possibilities, likely...
There they lived in pathetic fake grandeur on a bourgeois $40,000 a year-eating more fish than meat, traveling in state in a motorbus, scrimping so as to surround themselves with a bevy of hair-combers and coat-holders-always playing at monarchy with Otto. They addressed him "Your Imperial Highness." In the nursery his seven little brothers and sisters bowed and curtsied...
...gems that surround...