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I do so dislike H. G. Wells being accompanied by Wagner, don't you Mr. Ford?”
… he was forced to acknowledge the aptness of the phrase. Nazism combines a crassly mechanical futurism with the fuss and fume of a tawdry pseudo-Gothic misconception of the past.
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― Digging for Mrs. Miller: Some Experiences of an Air-Raid Warden
― Digging for Mrs. Miller: Some Experiences of an Air-Raid Warden
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A lot of buildings were burnt out, others badly racked and unsafe, some completely smashed. Off the main road it was worse; here and there houses were being demolished, blasting going on sometimes, traffic being cleared, here a bridge being propped up, there a loudspeaker van telling people where to go for money or food. All windows gone everywhere... everywhere was the smell of plaster and burning, everywhere this incredible mess, everywhere people trailing about with a mattress or a bundle or
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― Among You Taking Notes...: The Wartime Diaries of Naomi Mitchison 1939 - 1945
― Among You Taking Notes...: The Wartime Diaries of Naomi Mitchison 1939 - 1945
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