Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reasoned Reply. Japanese rightly felt they were the chief butt of what had been launched from Chicago. The Japanese Foreign Office specializes in reasoned replies, few of which ever seem reasonable to Occidentals, and its specialists cheerfully went to work last week. They always bear in mind that Japanese authorities in China always extract from Chinese officials who happen to be at their mercy treaties, pledges and written or oral agreements. This has been going on not merely for years but for generations, and usually not only the Japanese but also the Chinese refuse to divulge the texts...
Susan and God (by Rachel Crothers; produced by John Golden). With the consummate stage artistry of Gertrude Lawrence brought whimsically to bear on the egregious Oxford Groupers (Buchmanites), Rachel Crothers and John Golden last week brightened up Broadway's hitherto lacklustre season with Susan...
...involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns...
Four switches on one side are marked "electrostatic fields," while four opposing controls bear the sign "electromagnetic fields." The biggest and most business-like switch of all is marked "electrostatic distributor...
...Generalissimo was holding out at Nanking, his frequently bombed capital (see p. 22). and the diary which Mme Chiang began cabling to Manhattan's Herald Tribune last week was in a different class from Mrs. Roosevelt's description of such events as how last week a baby bear reared up on its hind legs and might have scratched the side of the President's car had it not moved on (see p. 15). Excerpts from Mme Chiang...