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Just before Barcelona fell, nine trucks loaded to the gunwales with gold bars, precious stones, gold and silver plate, gem-encrusted religious vessels and jewelry rolled out of the city and headed north. This gleaming freight, most of it confiscated from jewelry shops and churches, was an important part of the war chest of the Loyalist Government...
Last week Wal sent his cohorts into a dinner of the precious Wine and Food Society where, as Wal says, "a bunch of gourmets were holding a bloody gorge." Banners accused: YOU FEAST WHILE WE STARVE. At a banquet at which Minister of Health Walter E. Elliot was-speaking on leisure, Wal's men appeared with signs reading: LEISURE IS NO PLEASURE. They crowded into a white-tie feast attended by Civilian Defense Chief Sir John Anderson, flopped in the foyer like defenseless citizens in an air raid, and shouted for work on air raid precautions projects...
...Victor Moore, if that's what you mean. Excuse me if I go ahead with my dressing," said this Federal Theatre Macbeth, pulling on a pair of Harvardesque flannels. "My high school public awaits me yonder, precious hussies. And I've got a date tonight...
...reproduction among birds and flowers but not among animals. Mr. Buck & colleagues promptly sent it back, asking "Why?" Back came the superintendents' reasons, including a junior high school principal's plea that the schools ought not to "shoulder the responsibility of shortening for these little ones, very precious to us, their period of innocent childhood...
...feel," wrote Hino, "that the enemy soldiers whom we are killing look so much like us that we could be neighbors." When his company narrowly missed annihilation, he confessed: "I was seized with violent rage that precious life could be damaged so easily. . . . We soldiers are not only sons of men, but also husbands and fathers. We are human beings. . . . This is not the first time for me to have this sort of feeling. It is one of the most commonplace thoughts on the field of battle...