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...something bigger than a rabbit. Months ago, the President had pondered the grave new world, had brooded on the dread possibility of a United States of Germany which would have terrific economic striking power.* As usual, the President asked aides to submit suggestions. An adviser with a real passion for anonymity, working under Harry Hopkins and Adolf Berle, conceived a formula for a giant international economic union of North and South America...
With many of its principal actors fighting in France, the Oberammergau Passion Play (given once a decade) was canceled for the third time* since its inauguration in 1634. Not yet drafted was its Christus, long-haired, bearded Woodcarver Alois Lang, 49, too old for active service...
...Prinney," as the Prince was called, had a spoiled passion for his secret wife, Maria Fitzherbert (once, when near death from nerves, hangovers and bloodletting, he wrote a soulful will in her favor), and a funning relationship with catty Lady Jersey. It amused Lady Jersey to put Epsom salts in Caroline's food during the royal honeymoon. After their separation, the Prince indulged his hatred of Caroline by keeping her from their child, Charlotte. Caroline proceeded to mother every unattached infant she could lay her hands on, adopting one "Willikins" who turned out half-witted. In fits of raffish...
...meet the objections of censors. Waterloo Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing her to lose her job, he has to go off to the war before he can marry her. The young lady turns to prostitution...
...tall, slender old man with a well-brushed mustache and deep-set, friendly blue eyes, Dean Wigmore's passion for harmonizing the law of evidence is accompanied by a passion for just harmonizing. Words or music or both of nearly every song in the Northwestern Law School song book were his composition; he has also privately printed a book of songs called Lyrics of a Lawyer...