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...fellow-suffering. . . . The churches must lose their lives for Christ's sake and that of the brethren, become the hidden leaven of a selfless love in the lump of misery called mankind, go out and share the bitter things with not one timid shudder, or else be trodden under foot by men who have learned what life is all about...
...great help to Ambassador William D. Leahy. When Admiral Leahy returned to the U.S. to become Franklin Roosevelt's military adviser, Kippy Tuck took over. Salons, cocktail parties and polo fields are all closed but nowadays he would not care to play around. Watching the France he knew trodden under the Nazi heel has been bitter. Last week he had a chance to speak his wartime mind...
...students themselves. "Students of yesterday were honest, but that's not so today. They're more snobbish than they used to be, too," he says. Mickey Sullivan is the kind of American politician that, with all of his love for the people, and compassion for the down-trodden, must have something to use as a scapegoat to hold his "empire" together...
...make a summer, and one lapse of taste in its selection of a play does not signify, as that editorial stated, that the Harvard Dramatic Club is on the road "to hamdom." But the editorial went further than this and implied that the Club was already on that much-trodden road before the affair of "The Trojan Horse...
...only the first sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great...