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...find a way to give the kids a break? Take them out of durance vile and put them both to work at the airport. They'd eat it up and love it! Can we afford to toss these human chips to the four winds when the day may come when they will be needed to rekindle the everlasting American flame in the breasts of a thousand and one more kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...their share in work and courage for a common end. In the meantime two are still at school in the South; one, just 14, writes from her school: "T. woke me up, shaking and calling in my ear, the beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1940 | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Word has slithered in that a vile shindig is to be held this Friday; that immoral pastimes such as the dance shall be indulged in; that wild revelry shall shriek through hallowed halls until the first vestiges of dawn. In other words, in an effort to laugh down the sinister smirk of finals, Leverett House is throwing a dance. For some trivial sum, you will be able to prance and dance to the music of Kent Bartlett and watch a smooth, suave exhibition of what should be (but ain't) done on the dance floor...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under . . . this little gang of bloodstained, money-making murderers [the Nazis]. . . . Hitler says the whole German people is behind him. I for one am prepared to take him at his word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Break Up Germany! | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...months ago Rev. R. Anderson Jardine had another call. This time it was up to him to save the U. S. from salacious magazines and other vile literature. He started to write a book - Wake Up Amer ica to Indecency. A friend thought it was just the thing for a movie. Four anonymous backers put up $100,000 for the production. A script was prepared, and the title stripped down to plain Indecency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Indecency | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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