Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...Most movies bore me. I like to go once in a while, but as for acting in them--Oh they make me got up too early in the morning...
...School of Music. Brother Walter kept his programs consistently fresh and enterprising (even to the extent of sponsoring the first serious efforts of the upstart George Gershwin). But he was besieged by financial worries until 1914 when his friend Harry Harkness Flagler took over the Symphony's deficits, bore them single-handed until the merger with the Philharmonic...
...modified, and today Mr. Grace is paid a straight salary of $180,000 per year. But old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab now gets his $250,000, good years or bad, and when the Bethlehem stockholders met in Newark, N. J. last week, the aging founder, present but not presiding, bore the brunt of the complaints. Loyally defending his chief from the chair, President Grace called Mr. Schwab a "real asset to the corporation...
Next morning the Herald Tribune carried the story on the front page, printed the frog's picture. The creature was an immediate sensation. Reporters and cameramen from, other papers bore down on the Museum in swarms. Although it was a female and Dr. Noble pointed out the obvious fact that it was not white but a pale, faintly rosy yellow, the Press named the frog "Whitey." Picture services dispatched Whitey's likeness throughout the U. S. by airplane, started it across the Atlantic...