Word: abend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many Japanese civilians liquored up heavily before the Victory Parade. "They swaggered offensively, shoved Chinese civilians into the gutters and in some cases tripped them into falling, whereupon there was uproarious laughter from the Japanese," grimly cabled New York Timesman Hallett Abend. Leading the parade came Japanese officers riding in motor cars or on horses so shockingly thin and ill-cared for as to make many a spectator gasp. Well-fed, clean-uniformed Japanese infantry came next, the middle-aged troops of the Son of Heaven who are invading China while his better, hardier and younger soldiers guard Manchukuo against...
...Chinese quarters of Tientsin. By 10:20 a. m. what Associated Press called "the most destructive and longest aerial bombardment ever undertaken by Japanese Army"* fliers had ringed Tientsin's foreign concessions with dense smoke clouds belching up from the Chinese quarters. Cabled New York Times veteran Hallett Abend: "The Tientsin crisis is definitely over!" Nonetheless it had provided the unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb the daylights out of a city he was using at the same time as his base for an invasion. In the harbor meanwhile a perky little Japanese armored launch chuffed...
...Deal with some such words as: "Our American people seem to me a nation of jazz-loving gum-chewers, profligate instalment-plan buyers, poltroon capitulators to racketeers, gasoline-wasters and coffee-addicts." *See the ablest recent Far East volume, Can China Survive?, by New York Times correspondents Hallett Abend & Anthony J. Billingham (Ives Washburn, Inc. New York, $3). *Died 1908. Her Majesty has just been made the subject of a brilliant biography, The Last Empress by His Excellency Daniele Vare who was then an Italian legation official at Peking (Doubleday, Doran, $3). *Shantung's previous satrap "The Monster...
...York Times Correspondent Hallett Abend reported that the following message had been handed foreign diplomats in Peiping...
...Colonel was immersed, but his wife remained high & dry, stepping from airplane to lifeboat. (Hallett Abend of the New York Times...