Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and twenty-five delegates slept in the city jail. Democrats carried a big banner saying ROOSEVELT AGAIN, AGAIN AND AGAIN. Liberal-Independents had as their official emblem a giraffe, "because it sticks its neck out." At the height of the Republican convention, a huge papier-mâché-headed elephant opened up and out tumbled a bevy of college girls...
...Louis, Mo., tweedy Mrs. Gilbert P. Strelinger, vice president of the American Pointer Club, was last week taking care of Ch. Stainton Sonora, an exquisite showing pointer bitch from Cheshire, England which answers to her calling name Barbara only when it is pronounced with a broad English accent. Angry St. Louisans have written Mrs. Strelinger asking why she did not adopt refugee orphans instead of dogs...
...hill-where one bloody day last May 200 Chinese were bombed to death because they thought they would be safe from air attack if they hid under trees and bushes -a gay new game was being played last week. It was called "Get the Traitors." Five papier-mâché puppet heads were arranged on the ground. Each represented a Chinese who had sold out to the Japanese. Several paces away laughing Chungking citizens lined up for chances, at 5? a throw, to try to ring the heads with evergreen wreaths. Whoever succeeded in "crowning" the puppet which represented...
...Swan" of Huxley's sour fable is Jo Stoyte: old, half-mad with wealth and power ("they are the same"), desperately hanging on to his sexual potency, desperately afraid of its loss, of age, of death. In his gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections...
Died. Alexander Mair Stewart, 82, Canadian-born building contractor responsible for the erection of Mitsui Gomei Kaisha bank in Tokyo, the Hotel Savoy in London, Château Frontenac in Quebec, the capitols of Utah, Oklahoma, Idaho, Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, and in Washington the Interstate Commerce, Department of Labor and U. S. Chamber of Commerce buildings; of heart disease; in Manhattan...