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...Comparing Coughlin's Social Justice with Hitler's abortive Beer Cellar Putsch, which took place in the days of the Weimar Republic, Grant said. "At that time, German Democracy showed that it was either weak or else that it had no confidence in itself, by handling the conspirators with kid gloves and letting them off with relatively easy sentences. Had the German government been stronger or had it had more confidence in itself. Hitler might well have not risen to power in later years...
...first act ended and the crowd applauded vigorously. I was amazed at the way Martinelli and the other singer took their curtain calls. They seemed as happy as kids. (I'll admit that when I was a "kid" and an eminent actor in my own small way I was usually not happy in a jovial sense when the curtain come down but rather happy in the sense of being-relieved. However, it is true that my curtain calls were rare, and besides, "happy as kids" makes a pleasant if inaccurate simile.) They danced around and grinned at each other...
...Voice of Fighting Russia is almost a kid's book of brave deeds along the front and behind both lines-farmers weeping with outraged peasant piety as they destroy their crops; the obscure, invaluable labors of guerrilla warriors and of the ten million who form the labor battalions of the People's Army; the structure and façade of an entire people at war. Tank, infantry, sea and air engagements, if as consistently heroic as here reported, would have backed the Nazis off the Atlantic coast long ago. Gummy on every page with the fancy frosting...
Audiences of the early days nocked to hear the Polish pianist Volovsky "play 400 notes in one measure"; to watch jullien, famed French-English conductor of the 18505, lift a pair of kid gloves from a gold platter and carefully draw them on his fingers before conducting Beethoven; to hear & see 100 red-shirted firemen at the Boston Peace Jubilee of 1869 clanking 100 anvils to Verdi's Anvil Chorus...
Carl F. Zeidler, tousle-haired, 34-year-old singing "boy mayor" of Milwaukee, "the Personality Kid" who beat Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor for 24 years, in 1940, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, announced that he would resign his $12,300-a-year office as soon as he was called to active duty. "What does my life matter when the life of my country is at stake?" cried he. A Naval official said Zeidler would be made a lieutenant, junior grade, or full lieutenant, probably assigned to recruiting or promotion...