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...spoke in German, not extempore as usual but reading. "Comrades! . . . We shall never forget that Germany was not among the nations which imposed sanctions against us! ... Germany has awakened. ... I do not know when Europe will awake, for secret forces not unknown to us are at work striving to transform a civil war [Spain's] into a world conflagration. ... In answer to the question posed by the whole world, 'What will be the outcome of the meeting in Berlin, war or peace?' We-Der Führer and myself- reply in a loud voice 'PEACE...
...almost invariably, excruciatingly polite no matter what their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...
...third biggest maker of drilling equipment in the land. Consideration in the deal was 108,402 shares of U. S. Steel common stock, then worth $16,000,000. Set up as a holding company for this stock was a company named Pittsburgh United Corp., whose principal function was to transform Big Steel's dividends into dividends on Pittsburgh United's 58.212 shares of preferred, 389,963 shares of common. Unhappily for the onetime owners of Oil Well Supply Co., this function soon became an empty one because Big Steel's dividends stopped...
...element of conflict, without which no news story is great, lay between the reverent, laborious effort of the British people to stage a tremendous spectacle and perform a solemn ritual without any hitch, harm or boggle, and the implacable forces of Chance, innocent or vicious, which might suddenly transform their great drama into farce or tragedy, as a little spark did last fortnight at Lakehurst...
...himself by Finchatton's story, is further impressed by the gloomy thunders of Finchatton's doctor, who explains to him that Finchatton's story is all a yarn, but symbolically true: "The realities that are overwhelming him are so monstrous and frightful that he has to transform them into this fairy tale. . . ." The doctor alarms George even further by shouting that Finchatton is right: Cainsmarsh is everywhere, and the spirit of the animal cave man is still poisoning the air with fear. "What I tell you is the monstrous reality. The brute has been marking time...