Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Devout Nazis can be married in a pagan marriage ceremony. Its details were described in London last week. Solemn with Wagnerian overtones, it is designed for "all who have freed themselves from Christianity and wish to celebrate their marriage as true Germans without the blessing of a priest. The man or woman whose passion is at its height regards the final union ... as a festival...
...Avenue, Symphony Hall. It is inhabited by lonely girls who are just aching for a dancing partner. You pay $.50 to get in and then you ask whom you will to dance. There are no more charges, and you may escort the young lady to her home if you wish, and if she's willing...
...first an American, then a Southerner, and as I lie in my slit-trench during a break in maneuvers, my blood boils with rage at reading radical, damyankee Dr. Conant's wish for "setting up Federally financed but State-operated machinery for retraining the veterans and placing them in jobs, etc." [TIME, May 31). This Government control of so-called "freedom" is what I, and, I assure you, many like me are fighting against...
Call it sentimentalism or whatever you wish, but the hundreds of fellows here, especially the men in Companies "A" and "B" who have had the most contacts with the former Commanding Officer, will miss his kindly guidance and friendly manner. Discipline has had its place with him, but throughout there has remained the feeling of--well, if junior officers might so put it "he's just a swell fellow...
...greenish leer on his face. Indeed, be is one of the most hateful of all gremlins. He sneaks in silently, and than you hear him laughing hollowly in the back of the instrument. You open it to look for him, but by that time he isn't there. You wish he'd come back so you could find him and get rid of him. He won't, though, at least not until you've got everything put back together again...