Word: chinee
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...successful plays in Paris last season was Jean Pierre Aumont's "L'Empereur de Chine" in which the author also appeared and directed. Now translated and adapted by one of our most successful playwrights, Philip Barry, and given a new title, "Figure of a Girl," it is an interesting play to see, and the present production contains some really enjoyable acting. But as a play it is no great shakes...
...Williams had tried just about everything - cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist. None of these tries had brought him much of a living. In his spare time in smelly bunkhouses, roundhouses and ma chine shops, he had even drawn cartoons. One day he sent N.E.A. a drawing of a fire chief too fat to get out of his chair for an alarm. N.E.A. wired him from Cleveland to come in. When Williams got back home to Alliance, Ohio, he had a contract to draw cartoons...
...road with earth piled in between, where the Germans had hastily improvised defenses. Around these lie the old familiar signs of another lost German battle, the scattered helmets, the ripped off pants legs and coat arms where wounds were dressed, the golden sprinkles of ammunition, the smashed ma chine guns and the still smoldering trucks overturned in the ditches...
...with sugar cane - without coolie labor!" The man who split the beet seed is Roy Bainer, an agriculture teacher at the University of California. Professor Bainer had been teaching and tinkering at Cal's agricultural experiment station in Davis since 1929. One of his inventions is a ma chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move on to a flame which explodes the shells. The nut meat drops neatly into a hopper...
...Next morning he slept luxuriously late. When he awoke he learned that the sweaters he had brought for the kids were too small; the real crepe de Chine nightgown for his wife too large...