Word: notebooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shut or his pencil still in Naziland, furnished the world its first glimpse of the super-secret workings of Adolf Hitler's dread Volksgerricht or "People's Court." "As I stand at my window, seeing marching columns of Storm Troops," jotted down Simple Richard Roiderer in a notebook before his arrest, "I think to myself what slaves they are. A slavish loyalty to a bad cause and a bad leader! They represent the qualities of sadism, perversion and homosexuality that are misnamed in Germany today 'manliness'. "Honor: An 'honor' that delights in defending through...
...Well, I am a hare's foot, as I said, so then I signed a statement in which I said I intended to publish all that was in the notebook. I didn't mean to publish it all, however-especially not the armament figures...
...such stuff is the Share-the-Wealth movement. Secretary Christenberry carries a black notebook in his vestpocket in which he keeps tally. He says there are 27,431 clubs in the U. S. with 4,684,060 members. Even he probably does not know within a million or two how much truth there is in that figure...
...then about-faced and once more set out for mid-stream. Once more the ice broke. This time, several hitherto unnoticed men appeared with a ladder and skidded it out to him. A second rescue was under way, while the gentlemen of the ladder jotted down, sentences in a notebook regarding its progress. This procedure, it was discovered, was one of a series of experiments put on by the Red Cross to gather data for a treatise...
...lifted or an anchor to be moved into place? Call Peter. Get the Russian to do it. And Peter would rush up like a regiment of Cossacks and fall to as though his life were at stake. Except sometimes, when he appeared to be sketching in a notebook. Then he would be deaf as a stone, and dynamite couldn't move him. The English workmen were afraid of him and kept their distance. "The devil's in that Peter," they would say. "Don't go near him." And on he would scribble, hunched like a great bear on a pile...