Word: puppeted
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...story of "Pinocchio," the little puppet who finally becomes a real boy, is a natural for Walt Disney, for the creation of life where there was none before is his own specialty. Dwelling lovingly over each faltering step Pinocchio makes toward boyhood, Disney has created a character far more moving than any child actor of flesh and blood. When Disney has oiled up his last joint, and taken the last squeak out of his bearings, he is a boy worthy to be the son of warm-hearted old Geppetto, his maker...
With Pinocchio come a host of new sketches for the Disney gallery. Well out in front, striding along with a jaunty step, is Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire...
...Badlands have been patrolled by slovenly, bullyish Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen known as the Ta Tao Boys (for the puppet Ta Tao Government), who are quick and careless at the trigger. Japanese assassins working for the Wang Ching -wei Peace and Reconstruction Movement use the Badlands for their base; and Puppet-elect Wang's own fortified hideout is within a dice-throw of the most notorious opium and gambling joint in the whole area. No day goes by without at least one shooting in the Badlands. The section has naturally infected the adjacent International Settlement-so much so that...
...more, said Army spokesmen, than an old Chinese custom-after an overwhelming victory, offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would be the first step toward peace...
...Promoting a puppet Chinese government under Former Premier Wang Ching...