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...dishes. Manhattan's Theater Guild is busy rehearsing a Pennsylvania Dutch play (Papa Is All). U.S. advertising artists are using Pennsylvania Dutch tulip designs as borders for cosmetic ads. Every big Manhattan department store has stocked its shelves to cope with the trend. Most of the Pennsylvania Dutch bric-a-brac now sold commercially might bring blushes to the face of a good Mennonite, Dunkard or Amish. But U.S. housewives have set out to beat the Dutch...
...equally false that Peruvian troops "burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac." . The Peruvian Army behaved with such discipline and sense of honor that the President of the Republic, in a speech he made on the 16th of August, has been able...
...They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric-a-brac. Several thousand Ecuadorian refugees fled northward to Guayaquil and other cities by foot, mule, boat, boxcar-many went through muddy, snake-infested jungle strips along the coast...
...unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...worked off & on as a screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits it into a whole like a mammoth jigsaw puzzle...