... broad caster in a small way myself, I always wondered how it was that a serving officer should be able to find the time to speak so often and so well. Those talks take a lot of preparing, and the actual process of giving them digs deeply into the day's ...

... sixteenth century. Mediaeval England, with its barbarities and vigour, was flowering into something richer. Men were speaking poetry, as how they speak bad prose. Men still fought for the love of fighting, and loved for the fight of loving. It was a drunken, robust ...

... breakdown a patient could not help himself he had to say everything that was in his mind, reveal his true personality, so to speak. The specialist nodded. But when mad people rave, Nickv said, thev are halluci nated; they think they are the Pope or the ...

... mouth opened but no words came out. He said, You've got lovely teeth, haven't you, Vilma? I made gasping noises. I couldn't speak. He said That's just how it is. He lit another cigarette. You see, he went on, Carlos made a mistake. His information ...

... cockpit, (balanced on big bellows, the whole purring like a vacuum cleaner). A young flying officer instructor at a nearby desk speaks words of reproach or encouragement into a mike in his hand. Across the glass top of his desk wanders a track-marker, looking ...

... sometimes becomes a fetish in this Land of the Free and is extremely difficult to reconcile with common sense and justice. I speak with some feeling because I am, I fear, writing these lines in a somewhat dulled condition after several successive sleepless ...

... hate to speak more plainly about a very great artist who has made the blunder which threatens all the world's clowns that of taking himself too seriously outside the art to which he was born. He should have clowned this tragedy to the end. To speak in his ...

... Crosse, and married her distinguished American diplomat some years ago, and has caught his accent. His book, Diplomatically Speaking, is on all the best bed tables this winter; I have not gone far enough to know whether he writes about Caithness where he ...

... victory in our history. That is what Hitler told his soldiers yesterday. His New Year's Order of the Day to the German Army speaks of glorious victories of singular greatness on land, at sea and in the air. Then he declares: 1 know every one of you will ...

... open question whether the casual reader, and particularly the English reader, can keep a level interest in the two parts. Speaking for myself, I read the first half with intense excitement, began the second, slowed down, skipped, and put the book away ...

... stvle. just as there is nothing dull. His generalisations are often epigrams e.g. It takes two to tell the truth, one to speak and one to hear the soil must be ready as well as the seed. Or, again The modern fanaticisms give to Caesar we might almost ...

... Phoenicians, also adopted the two- and three-banked galley, especially the latter, as their standard fighting ship. Generally speaking, the Greek trireme was about 150 feet long, with an 18-foot beam. She was built of fir planking, with an oak keel, and her ...