Word: cleanness
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...sheh ky-shee) set gloriously out from Manchukuo's capital fortnight ago, bedight in brand new robes of Chinese silk (TIME, Oct. 24). Hours before his train was due in Tokyo Japanese schoolmarms excused little boys and girls from classes, washed the children's hands, stuck a clean Japanese flag into each chubby fist and let the moppets off in droves to shriek "Banzai! May you live 10,000 years...
Meanest of tricks is to tell a wealthy woman that the best way to clean her Oriental pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
...schoolchildren will be asked to stay after school on ten Friday afternoons this winter but it will not be to clean blackboards or copy promises of good behavior. Their task has been allotted them by Conductor Leopold Stokowski who, finding it difficult "to give the hopeless generation new ideas," declared last week that he would try to make children like modernistic music by having them listen to his broadcasts...
...does not resemble a garden and is about two miles from Madison Square). An exact replica of the Garden marquee was made in Hollywood and reappears constantly. The faces of Jack Johnson, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tommy Ryan, Billy Papke and Tod Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul Gallico. Damon Runyon. Jack Lait appear momentarily, drinking coffee; Runyon speaks but Pegler...
...played sweet music but the Harvard musicians staged a regular symphony concert combined with a musical spelling bee." As the band went through the intricate manoeuvers of turning big letters into little ones the stands looked on with mild interest, wondering slightly at the unusual number of clean white trousers. Then, however, forming on the Harvard side, they played a symphonic medley of Dartmouth songs, one of the best renditions they have ever attempted. This was evident from the unusual outburst of applause from both stands, when the players had finished...