Word: paperweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does a swan dive off a bar, sees bottles light up, hears a cash register strike up a tune. Actress Hayes is hardly a born vaudevillian, but she makes what is clumsy about her also seem comical; and she romps through her new role with the gusto of a paperweight that suddenly finds itself a pinwheel...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...