Ameliorate Jewish
Among the population of Americans who expressed anti-Semitic leanings, a common jibe described the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt as the Rosenberg administration.
Look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.
My between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What
Of mounting threat.
The Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments.
There existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete—that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one anoth...
A single German submarine, Unterseeboot-9—U-9, for short—commanded by Kptlt. Otto Weddigen, had sunk all three ships, killing 1,459 British sailors, many of them young men in their teens.
A. Scott Berg’s more recent Wilson; John Keegan’s wrenching The First World War; Martin Gilbert’s The First World War; Gerhard Ritter’s The Schlieffen Plan; Lowell Thomas’s 1928 book about World War I...
After experiencing life in Nazi Germany, Thomas Wolfe wrote, Here was an entire nation … infested with the contagion of an ever-present fear. It was a kind of creeping paralysis which twisted and blig...
Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf’s head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and h...
Anyone looking up from the dock saw only beauty, on a monumental scale, while on the far side of the ship men turned black with dust as they shoveled coal—5,690 tons in all—into the ship through openi...
As the firm grew, so did the city. It got bigger, taller, and richer; but it also grew dirtier, darker, and more dangerous. A miasma of cinder-flecked smoke blackened its streets and at times reduced...
As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library’s gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
At first alienists describes this condition as moral insanity and those who exhibited the disorder as moral imbeciles. They later adopted the term psychopath.
At night thunderstorms arose often, shedding lightning that gave the terrain the pallor of a corpse. Fog would settle in for days, causing the edge of the cliff to look like the edge of the material w...
Boswell and Thompson write, Every night the rooms on the two upper floors of the Castle were filled to overflowing. Holmes reluctantly accommodated a few men as paying guests, but catered primarily to...
But the sound frightened Isaac. The thudding, he knew, was caused by great deep-ocean swells falling upon the beach. Most days the Gulf was as placid as a big lake, with surf that did not crash but ra...
Camille’s rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees.
Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship
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