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Last week, at 84, the Gracious Lady quietly died. With her, since she never wrote a line of memoirs, she took thousands of secrets, some glorious, some pathetic, some just human, of the fallen House of Habsburg...
...students told us that in the seminars they get the integration of ideas and an exciting feeling of fruitful inquiry as the result of formal argument. "Our seminars are devoted ultimately to the revival of faith in the human intellect and its most glorious use in speculative and explorative thought," Dean Scott Buchanan has written...
...keep its claims accurate. Two flying officers-D. P. C. P. Wood and Richard Blomfield-were secretly court-martialed. German broadcasters said their crimes were handing in false reports of spectacular air victories in which they participated. Wood was found guilty, dismissed. Blomfield, said to have fabricated a glorious account of a Helgoland raid, committed suicide before hearing the court's verdict on him. The British Air Ministry said neither man was charged with false reporting, that both were in fact groundlings never engaged in air fights in this...
Wonderful to behold, tremendous to hear is a military band-as every schoolboy knows to his marrow. Oldest and most famed of all such U. S. bands is the U. S. Marine Band. Founded in 1798, the "Marines" have played at every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson's day. Glorious in scarlet uniforms, the band plays Hail to the Chief every time the President appears at a big state shindig...
...Emil Hacha, president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, exchanged telegrams. The dictator wired: "It is no intention of Germany to put a burden on the Czech people that might threaten their national existence. ..." The puppet president wired that Bohemia hoped for the victory of Germany's "glorious armed forces...