Word: text
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...text of the letter was somewhat different from the version broadcast by DNB. Instead of "My dear Friend Stalin," President Roosevelt had written: "My dear Mr. Stalin." Instead of "Yours in cordial friendship," the President had signed himself: "Yours very sincerely." But the German version, except for a few propaganda touches, such as "Friend Stalin," was as close to the original as could be expected if a Nazi translator had put it into English from some other language...
...Order," a thick, 1000-page tome which might more aptly have been entitled "A Thousand and One Lies," contains excerpts from every important speech by Adolph Hitler from 1922 until the invasion of Russia. Not so much a historical text as a study in abnormal psychology, the book offers almost unfathomable opportunities for following the twisted paths, the worn grooves, and the perverted by-paths of perhaps the cleverest and surely the most repelling mentality produced by a century potent with many evils...
...tactful double knock aroused Vag from his delicious reverie. He laid aside his copy of the latest New Yorker, and the physics text reposing beneath it in his lap, and lumbered towards the door. Probably another solicitor. His friends didn't tap on the door; they banged on it. Well, he had made short work of that Student Council fellow last night, and he felt prepared to face any attack on his privacy and purse this evening...
...down his Modern European History text and leaned back, yawning, in the armchair. He closed his eyes and sighed. History could never be the same since that day last spring when he had heard that booming voice declaim for the last time, "Gentlemen, the Middle Ages were slow, slow, inconceivably slow...
...Vagabond sucked on his unlit pipe and began to wonder. The author of the text he had just put aside had a great deal of information about the Middle Ages, undoubtedly remarkable, and perhaps even useful, but could that author transform his dry, textbook style into such sonorous periods and ringing phrases as were went to keep even the drowsiest Freshman from nodding at nine o'clock in the morning? And even if his author could deliver such a lecture, thought Vag, could he hold to the measured pace of his biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from...