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...English, French, German, Italian and Welsh tarts aged 20 to 60. A careful checkup revealed an average of 91 importunists per hour in one street. Two police officers were accosted by 35 women along a 120-yard stretch. In the same area about 100 males were "engaged in this vile business. In Piccadilly 22 men were loitering. Many of them were painted and powdered and in a few cases were wearing high-heeled shoes.";Concurrently, with the opening of Easter Law Sittings, began the greatest flood of British divorces since Henry VIII started a church...
...first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign of vile, hypocritical lies about the Soviet Union . . . the one great power where the people govern . . . the one great power that can have no imperialistic aims...
Chapter 8: What Guilt!: Questioning of Elser began. "Examinations of him," reported Deutsche Dienst, "take no end of time. He ponders every word before he replies, and if one can observe him, one forgets what a vile animal he is. What guilt. What a horrible burden his conscience apparently is able to bear so lightly...
...just before war began, since when life has been pretty hectic. I was mobilised with my Women's Auxiliary Fire Service on the 1st, and to my horror discovered all arrangements had been changed, and that we had to live at the Fire Station in the most vile discomfort. In fact things got so impossible we all resigned in a body, but improvements were promised and are actually in hand, so that I suppose gradually conditions will improve. The first night I slept on a table, but now on a camp bed & a sleeping bag, as, after being perfectly...
...Heard last week over many a British loudspeaker: "You people are so safe, you imagine. We know where your ARP stations are, but our bombers could get you before you got there!" The wave length was Hamburg's but Britons had a vile suspicion that the broadcasts came from "somewhere in England," were perhaps a belated Nazi-planted reply to the irrepressible German Freedom Radio (TIME...