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...land toward Tientsin, Peiping and the hope of a living. The distance they cover is upwards of 800 miles. The ordeal they undergo, as culled from my own observation in Manchuria and North China and from the press in Nanking, would need a Tu Fu to compass...
Boxing the Compass. "Wallace," says Macdonald, "never analyzes a problem: he barges around inside it, throwing out vague exhortations." The reason, he thinks, is that "Wallace wants to be loved, and followed by everybody, just as he wants to believe every doctrine all at once." For much the same reason "Wallace's words don't spring, they don't leap, they don't even stumble; they just ooze ... his writing is that of a sick and troubled man, a man not at peace with himself. . . ." Macdonald thinks that Wallace's behavior in the 1932 campaign...
Comforts of Home. Near Askov, Minn., a search party finally found the hunter who had packed his gear in the dark, gone into the wilds with his wife's compact instead of his compass...
...other compass points of the conference table were the U.S.'s George Marshall and Britain's Ernie Bevin. Marshall dominated the room. He sat quite erect as always, listening to everything, talking least of all. But whenever he did speak, or even when he made a discernible movement among his papers, he got instant, taut attention. Bevin spoke in bursts, slumped back in his chair betweentimes. Sometimes, to the horrified fascination of others at the table, he rolled his false teeth (new last year) gently back & forth in his great jaws...
...suburbs and walls of Hofei bristle with defense works Chinese style. Mud-brick pillboxes, screened with briars and entwining tree branches, flank the gates at every compass point. Behind the barricades is fear and hate...