But we do see imperfect things in nature, dwarfed, blasted trees and other apparent miscarryings. Yet they are as perfect as their environment allows them to be.

Saturday night we had our final parade with the fireworks finish, and it was a lallapalootza!

Ill-will can mak a stooshie, but love can settle a stramash.

Until 1932 they had been right. National Socialism had been a stigma. Among well-born Germans, the Nazi party was regarded as coarse. But that autumn, they were beginning to understand that the door of history had been shut on their Augustan Age of princes and potentates and plumed marshals and glittering little regular armies--on all the fanfaronade that had marked their disciplined, secure world.