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...skin our eyes for fire bombs. They cross the city from (half a line censored) again and again... looking for something, or taking bearings. Now they are over us; now they are away to the north; they are dropping flares and a section of the city is incarmined, whilst above innumerable search light beams thrash the inky sky. Within a few seconds the flares are shot out, and the sky darkens. The search lights follow the planes South.... West... back again in a great triangle, and then more flares drop slowly to earth showing up black buildings against the same...
...scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany . . . and excited the astonishment of contemporaries for more than two centuries. . . . It was called the dance of St. John or of St. Vitus, on account of the Bacchantic leaps by which it was characterized, and which gave to those affected, whilst performing their wild dance, and screaming and foaming with fury, all the appearance of persons possessed...
...Your alleged wonderful news organization for the war in Europe might impress a few "Innocents" abroad and at home, whilst to those who can compare what is actually happening with what your "war-correspondents" report it is but a silly joke if you pretend to supply reliable information...
...World War II set many of the King's subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the Union Jack with the greeting: "Strong and yet kind, whilst children near him play, but foes who touch the flag will...
...Whilst heartily approving your general attitude with regard to the H.S.U., I should like to take issue with the statement that, whilst "...the H.S.U. is avowedly an organization for the preservation of peace and democracy... a basic confusion still remains; the confusion about the role of the communist in a liberal coalition...