Word: valhalla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Joseph Washington Frazer reached the motor magnates' Valhalla. He had been elected board chairman of Graham-Paige Motors Corp.; now Joe Frazer could make and sell his own automobiles. In a happy hubbub, almost like old times, he watched telegrams coming in from dealers all over the country, asking for postwar franchises...
...huge international royalties in the past, knowing him for a highly practical artist, were inclined to discount the heroism in his stubbornness. On the other hand, it was quite conceivable that the 80-year-old composer might have balked at riding the few remaining miles to music's Valhalla aboard the Nazi bandwagon...
...your wig and gown and put me in the witness box." Someone asked Curtin if he was completely satisfied with the result of the Empire Conference from which he was returning. Said Curtin: "The only man who is completely satisfied is one who has passed into Valhalla or is placed alongside the Almighty...
Candidate for Valhalla. As if already choosing his seat in Valhalla, Hitler concluded: "Our one prayer to our Maker will not be that He gives us victory but that He weighs us justly in accordance with our courage, our bravery, our industry and our sacrifices. ... It is our duty to see that we do not weigh too lightly in His eyes, but experience the gracious judgment of victory which means life...
...conndence" with the assurance that conflict among Washington, London and Moscow was unavoidable. Said one commentator: "We Germans are much better politicians than the Allied statesmen, and therefore we are going to win the peace - whatever may happen." This was now the German game. If it fails somewhere in Valhalla the unseen hand will strike a mightier note...