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...years between 15 and 20 are the most difficult years in life. . . . Great biological changes are taking place. . . . Who cares about the dead past, when every fiber of one's body is tingling in a glorious present...
...last war except to say that he was liaison officer between the French and our own Major General Edgar Russel, chief signal officer of the American Expeditionary Force. (You fellows from Menmouth will remember Russel Hall, named after him.) Dr. LeCorbeiller recalls with pleasure the grand and glorious times he had with the American Signal Officers at the end of the first World...
...unchained on the side away from Russia, in 1939, Pravda and company kept the Russians constantly informed of the "War in Europe" waged by the "Plutocratic Aggressors," i.e., France and England. When military foresight required that the Mannerheim Line be taken, the Russian press reported at length on a "glorious Finnish revolution," wholly mythical, against the "White Guard bandits," i.e., the Finnish government. When Pravda, last fall, editorialized several times a week on the Second Front, observers could not help speculating on the Party's purpose...
...hidebound society to order their thoughts and actions. To him, the perfect state had "a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another . . . [and] leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement" -to live their lives in as tumultuous, glorious, ambitious a disorder as they please...
...made this journalistic conservatism almost untenable. War was too real, too exciting.* By spring 1941, when Ray Brock wrote from Belgrade with glorious enthusiasm of the Yugoslav decision to fight the Nazis, the lid was off. Now Times correspondents are allowed always to write much as they please...