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...armistice between China and Japan, he replied, "Saturday." When the interviewer attempted to explain that he was talking about world events and not the time of his shirts' reappearance the celestial said, "Thursday, then." The conversation seemed to have reached an impasse, but Wing followed up with a brisk right to the chin, "They got big guns, hey? Twelve inches! Some big guns! We only got little guns, so." The washer of the linen demonstrated the size of the Chinese guns with his hands, leaving the iron to rest on a shirt, but his gesticulation were cut short...
...straight political fight, with only two names on the short ballot and no side issues. Boss Maschke's Republicans ran Daniel Edgar Morgan, an honest, able administrator who succeeded William Rowland Hopkins as city manager in 1930. The Democratic candidate was 38-year-old Ray T. Miller, brisk, red-faced Cuyahoga County prosecutor. At Notre Dame Ray Miller played one end on the football team in 1913 while Knute Rockne was playing the other. His brother, Don Miller, was one of the "Four Horsemen" in Notre Dame's famed 1924 backfield. In his campaign Democrat Miller ignored Republican...
...plot in which a French cadet (Jeritza) disguises himself as a woman, foils the British enemy and emerges a lieutenant. There are the usual marches, waltz tunes, love duets and. as in the remodeled Boccaccio, asides in colloquial English. Boccaccio was good for eight performances because the production was brisk, because earnest German singers looked funny cavorting about the stage, because light opera becomes the Viennese Jeritza. Donna Juanita should prosper briefly for the same reasons. The production is even faster, more up-to-date. The Metropolitan's conservative ballet appears barelegged. Jeritza is gorgeous in a black & gold...
...TIME. Dec. 21). They knew that this half-born British sea monster (her embryonic name: No. 534) was not insured in Germany or anywhere else against Depression. Typically British, the thousands of letter writers made no moan, bade Cunard lo take courage and finish what Britons had begun. These brisk letter-writers, including many an old lady, finally overwhelmed Cunard Chairman Sir Percy Elly Bates with offers of money which, in some cases, was enclosed in the form of crisp Bank of England notes. For the Cunard Board of Directors there was but one British thing to do. They...
...brisk, bearded young Italian, President Hoover opened the White House doors as wide as ever he did to a head-of-state. Four times Signer Grandi passed through the glass portals-once for a courteous "Excellency! Excellency!," once for a respectful "A rivederci," once for a great State dinner in his honor and once for a long private talk with the President. In the Lincoln Study three easy chairs were pulled before the fireplace. Into them sank Messrs. Hoover, Grandi & Stimson. Because of the Foreign Minister's good command of English, no interpreter was necessary...