Word: ch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chúng ta ca quyet nhat dinh rang nhung nguoi thiêt mênh o dây se không phai là nhung nguoi dã chet vô ích . . ." With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
...Calm. Homer got 6,000 electric bulbs, seven new electric cables, and a public-address system and installed them on the lawn in front of his house, which is about the biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché camels, 24 sheep, nine shepherds, one cow, and the figures of the Three Wise Men and Mary and the Infant Jesus. He mounted the Star of Bethlehem on a 50-ft. steel mast and built a manger. Then he turned on the lights, and the public-address system put out Christmas carols...
Please Applaud. In Tokyo's shiny new sports center, a crowd of 10,000 thronged to join the hallelujah chorus. Before a papier-mãché globe surmounted by doves, black-robed Shinto priests in formal vestments, shaved Buddhists in red, blue and saffron robes, turbaned Moslems and black-clad Japanese Episcopal ministers stood rigidly in silent prayer for peace...
...1890s the Moulin Rouge was the gayest dance hall in Paris. It had little Tunisian donkeys which bore cancan girls on their backs, an immense papier-mâché elephant which hid a troupe of dancers and an entire orchestra in its belly. It also had rough & ready Louise Weber (known for her lusty appetites as La Goulue-the glutton), who nightly exposed her shapely limbs and 60 yards of lace lingerie in hectic kicks and splits. To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster...
...Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...