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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French horn (vide TIME, Nov. 13, p. 42) permit a "cover to cover" reader a word...
...give an inner core of golden harmony to the music of the great orchestra, an instrument sonorous and yet almost incomparably romantic; for you it "beeps and purls." But that is not all. You go on to the "saliva" with which it becomes filled. Permit me, mister, just a word with you. In the course of perhaps two hours winding of the horn, the player will have to pour nearly a glass of water out of its coils and crooks. This is not spit. Shame on you! The horn acts as a still. The breath of the performer (and your...
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...
...uniform. Raincoats closed with slide fasteners made a startling appearance in the restaurants of the moment, as well as the most tailored jackets you have ever seen, at which you glanced a second time to find the epaulets, the decorations, and the service stripes. And sometimes, on my word, you found them...
...Catherine II also was less Great than advertised, more liberal in word than in deed: The peasants "sank to the lowest level of slavery during her so-called enlightened reign." "She was a fairly clever woman . . . such a one as, given the means, might make a success as a London hostess...