Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head. But his most objectionable symptom seems to be his longtime anti-Naziism. When Hitler took over Germany in 1934 Zwink retired from village life and kept to his house, painting bad portraits and canvases of church interiors. A calendar portrait of Franklin Roosevelt hung on his wall throughout the war. He defines himself as an anti-Nazi "with a clean conscience." When someone made a joke about the paradox of his anti-Naziism and his Judas role, he said: "I find it pretty funny myself. One would expect at least the same [anti-Naziism] from Jesus Christ...
...emotional outlet." Arthur himself has defined that emotion: "I want nothing of this for myself. . . . I am doing this work for my God and for my country." No one who has seen artless Arthur struggle to assemble these words, like a man worrying boulders to a wall, can doubt that he means them...
...them. But when Phyllis Calvert, the No. 2 female star in Britain, went to Hollywood to visit and came back with a written contract, he decided that he had better get tougher. (He refuses to make another picture with Calvert, saying sadly: "I have turned her picture to the wall.") Rank now leashes his people with seven-year contracts before letting them loose in Hollywood...
...think RFC has been grossly mismanaged," he cried. "They have been in bed with Wall Street." Like a "Shylock" demanding its "pound of flesh," RFC in cooperation with Wall Street had played "power politics" with the Erie Railroad, the Missouri Pacific, the Chicago & North Western, "and half a dozen other bankrupt railroads." By appointing former RFC employees as trustees of the bankrupt roads, RFC had in effect created an evil "voting trust." As a result, Young declared, "those railroads have been grossly, almost criminally mismanaged...
...foot of the obelisk (white and floodlit like the Washington Monument), and from the car with the five-starred gold license plates stepped a beady-eyed little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, held his nightly court, with his favorites clustered around...