Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hurrah for Uncle Autumn. Western Germany last week was full of hope. The summer had been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...
...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...
...Hendricks backers did not look forward to marching in a traditional Republican parade, so they asked the entire College to rally for Cleveland. The matter was submitted to a vote, and tradition won out; the College voted 569 to 363 to march Republican. This parade was probably the most glorious in College history. Cambridge Police marched in front, followed by a Fife and Drum Corps, followed by the entire cheering, chanting student body, Democrats and Republicans. Torches in hand, the boys weaved in and out of Boston sidestreets winding up at the Brunswick Hotel, where "The Plumed Knight" himself, James...
...lost $2,000 near the Belmont gate, before he had a chance to lose it at the windows, O'Grady recovered the roll with the rubber bands still intact. Another time, a temporarily well-to-do businessman suddenly decided to "invest" his savings of $80,000 in one glorious day at the races. Two special agents who spotted the man peeling off thousand-dollar bills at a pari-mutuel window put a purposely obvious "tail" on him, so that every footpad within miles would keep hands off. The businessman got home safely-but broke...
...never seen anything like it, I said to Alice, we can't sell any more books because we have no more to sell . . . to think how hard it used to be . . . it's nice to be glorious and popular in your old age, and to buy bones for Basket [her dog] and be admired by the young, well bless you kiddies bless...