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...ordered was some he didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger's Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria...
...amusement, hurled them food - gobs of rice - so that they had to scramble for the grains on the filthy cell floor. Learning that Zamperini was a famous miler, they forced him to compete against healthy Jap runners, bribed him (with food) to stall so the Japs could score a glorious victory...
...Tokashiki islet, near Okinawa, there was no sign of humility in Major Yoshi-tsugu Akamatsu. The cocky 26-year-old self-consciously patted his polished boots -"Cavalry officer, you know"-then offered to fight it out, said it would be glorious to die in battle. In the end, he surrendered...
...really preferred the primitive pleasures of his country home at West Sunit, deep in the steppe. There he forgot the cares of state, frolicked with his two children, took airplane rides, wrestled (the chief Mongolian recreation) with old cronies, played the guitar and sang old songs of the glorious days when his forebears ruled Europe as far as the Oder and Danube Rivers and Asia from Bagdad to Burma...
...almost an absurdity to expect anyone to write for a newspaper the very morning after one of those glorious all night stands in Winchester. But if our supply teacher can show up and proceed to try to teach what remains of the class (e.g., Bob Brocker's now asleep in the second row) we can try, too. Further more, "Broomie" made it on time, too, and if he can still fight the war after Tuesday night, anyone can. But we do note, alas, that, "Papp" Dye couldn't make it the morning after. Congratulations to the hosts if, unlike Brocker...