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...gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same day the Board of Special Inquiry, making a delicate distinction between her case and that of Countess Cathcart, excluded her not because of her amours but "because of an admission of a crime involving moral turpitude, to wit, assault with a dangerous weapon." Unless Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins reverses the Board's ruling on her fellow working woman, Magda de Fontanges will be sent back to France this week...
Even in the midst of his affliction the outpouring of his verse continued, pure, strong-rhythmed, smooth-flowing and simply lyrical as no German verse had been before. The wit that had made him one of the century's greatest epigrammatists remained undiminished. When he made his will, leaving everything to his wife Mathilda, he stipulated that she must marry again immediately after his death. "In that way, I shall be sure at least one man is sorry I am no longer alive." Heine would have appreciated the joke which time has played on him. When the Nazi censors...
...harassed early days when Kurt Ludecke was about the only Nazi who had plenty of spending money, his good cronies Hitler and other future Nazi big shots called him "Der Amerikaner." This nickname came from his familiarity with the U. S., his smart clothes, wrist watch, nervy wit. He was, said Hitler, half-facetiously refusing him permission to make soapbox speeches, ''too much of a swell.'' Later, when Nazi officials had limousines and champagne, the nickname still stuck-but with a shadier meaning, derived partly from Ludecke's too thoughtful awareness of U. S. anti...
...Knew Hitler now recalls the late and living Nazi leaders from the days when they could barely afford paste for posters. Into his 814-page confessions Author Ludecke dumps an amazing store of uncloseted skeletons and dirty Nazi linen. He writes in English, easily, with no accent, frequent wit. His story is the most amende and grimly absorbing Nazi confession that has yet appeared in English...
...friendly but overcurious natives with a blood bath, burned their village. Gonzalo with three others had the bad luck to be ashore when the natives returned to attack the ship, which fled for good. Only one of the four to escape, he lived in a cave until his quick wit and civilized gadgets awed the natives into accepting him as a reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl...