Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soldiers went in for simpler forms of looting. Clothes and food were what they wanted, and they were not very discriminate in their tastes: women's silk garments, peasant cotton trousers, shoes, underwear, were all stripped off the backs of their possessors whenever Chinese were unfortunate enough to fall into the hands of Japanese detachments...
...names of the villages (Liushe, Wangchiachuang, etc.) are meaningless 100 miles away, but in some, every single woman, without exception, was raped by the soldiers in occupation. In villages whose occupants had not fled quickly enough, the first action of the Japanese was to rout out the women and have at them; women who fled to grainfields for hiding were forced out by cavalry who rode their horses through the grain fields to trample them and frighten them into appearance...
...Twilight was fast vanishing but it was still light enough to see hills, peaks, and valleys around...
...T.s-he had snakes in his sleeves, even in his boots (see cut). As he slouched off, the boys said: "We've been over to Alma Temple and signed the pledge and joined the Dry Legion Crusaders. We shall never drink a drop, and when we're old enough we are going to vote the wicked stuff out of existence...
...tabloid Julius Caesar is a hit; so is a marathon Hamlet. A romantic play-Romeo and Juliet-starring Katharine Cornell, does well enough; a largely rhetorical one-King Richard II-starring a then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on Broadway, goes over big; with Leslie Howard, a big Broadway name, flops. Tallulah Bankhead cannot last a week in Antony and Cleopatra, Walter Huston cannot last a month in Othello. The simplest answer is almost certainly right: Shakespeare is as popular as his performance...