Sublime

George Bailey Sr. is a kind, loving man who founds the Bailey Building and Loan, the kind of banking establishment that demands a sense of community to be successful. It was designed, first and foremost, to make home ownership available to the “common man” by leveraging the savings of the community to help one

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm was initially shocked. The Balkan war he had hoped for had suddenly turned into a large-scale European conflict. Nonetheless, he still saw an opportunity to finally bring all Germans together. On 1 August 1914, he declared, ‘today we are all German brothers and only German brothers’. While

I asked Ernest about Harold and Pat and he explained that Harold Loeb was Princeton from a very rich New York family, had been on the boxing and wrestling teams in college. He had literary aspirations, even started a little magazine in Paris called Broom. Fiercely devoted to Duff, very jealous of Pat, who alternated weekends with Duff.

The attack at Ypres was overseen by the father of this new method of war, the Jewish chemist Fritz Haber.

“He’s a bad man,” Landsman says. “And he always was.” “Yes, but he made up for it by being a terrible father.”

Lita believed that losing a son was one of the worst things that could happen to a man like Harry, who was dedicated to his family, his faith, and his business. After Lewis died, Harry “lost interest in a dynasty.”

Father Madeleine refused the cross. Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer."

He framed the war as a quest to restore Germany’s honor and rescue the nation from the oppression of the Treaty of Versailles.