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...eclipse of the moon threw Ethiopians last week into the brief panic an eclipse always produces in Ethiopia, but they were soon boastfully exuberant again when good war news came in from both the North Front and the South. Premature "little rains," not due until next month, made them believe that Allah, Jehovah and their assorted pagan gods were sending the 1936 Rainy Season ahead of time to save Ethiopia. Italy's motor transport was immobilized in many places by the "little rains," wheels spinning impotently in sticky red mud. Sodden and soaked Italian bombing planes could...
...threw back his head and roared with laughter, repeating, in English; 'Kidnapped! Kidnapped...
...Szechwan. In the southern mountains, ancient home of the non-Chinese Lolo, Sifan and Miautse tribes, it opened a mile-long rent in a great mountain. The shaking mountains hurled the little Lolo citadels from their peaks into the valleys, like shot-putters at practice. They threw avalanches into the gorges of the tributary Yangtze rivers. For five hours Chiang's cherished line of last defense undulated and crumbled. It was a week before the first meager tidings trickled down the Yangtze to Nanking...
Even louder was the fanfare when the Soviet Government, announcing that it had "decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend...
...have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success, the inadequate funds, irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles...