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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...lanes north and west of Ireland. Last fortnight's claim of 327,000 tons in one week was upped to 490,000 tons in ten days, a good portion by Nazi bombers such as harpooned the Empress. The disappearance of heavy long-range bombers from Britain except over Liverpool and other west-coast ports revealed the latest Nazi stratagem-to add planes to U-boats in heavy autumn offensive against Britain's oversea supply lines...
...physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
...Chinese offensive was perhaps not destined to do much except fizzle out. But it demonstrated that hope was far from dead in Chungking. During the week Japanese-inspired peace rumors rose mistily from Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong. The Chinese quickly fanned away these hopeful vapors. China's erudite Ambassador to the U. S. Dr. Hu Shih said of these rumors: "Sheer nonsense. China has lost vast and important territories and has suffered stupendous casualties. ... In spite of these, China still fights...
...farce written by an English actor who knew his trade. It still holds fourth place for consecutive performances (1,466 during its original London run), after Tobacco Road, Abie's Irish Rose, Chu-Chin-Chow. But it has been played oftener, all told, than any drama except Hamlet, was once presented simultaneously by 44 companies, has been translated into at least 20 languages, is the only play that has been rendered and acted in Esperanto. A great dramatic monument is Charley's Aunt...
Siamese Twins are identical twins who are not completely separated. "True Siamese twins consist of two nearly complete individuals united obliquely side by side in the hip region. Internally there are two complete sets of viscera, except that there is usually a common rectum." Their organs are symmetrical, one heart slanting to the right, the other to the left. But for some mysterious reason, they are often very unlike in facial features and personality...