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...great public sounding board has great influence, and the military extremists who planned Japan's war would have liked to eliminate the Diet. While they were coming to power they had got rid of political parties. They made a start toward a totalitarian Fascist party, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, but so many politicians got on its rolls that it never had much unity. The militarists could not get rid of the Diet because it had been set up by the sacrosanct Imperial Constitution...
...after it was built, being unfit to bear exposure to the air of this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point on Chapel Hill, the visitor may catch sight of a giant chess castle. From its summit one gets a clearer view of the slaughter house...
Another, guarding blonde Miss Lane in a sky-high Rockefeller Center office, earnestly observes: "I hope we can get rid of her soon. I promised to take my kid sister to the Philharmonic...
...slide around her notes after the fashion of the lithesome torchsinger. These two are not the only top-notch people in the show. There is Jimmy Rushing, who puts all of his large person into telling the world he's "Movin" to the Outskirts of Town" to get rid of the grocery boy and the iceman for the traditional reason. He also sings his famous "Going to Chicago Blues." Fortunately the management has spared a dozen tumbling acts and lets these various components of the feature attraction be more than names...
...Bitter Tea of General Yen), who had waited to declare herself till a daughter in Hungary had safely reached the U.S. Of her pen name (Ethel Vance), Authoress Stone explained she had chosen it because "it sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid...