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...years the plutocratic International Settlement had taken pleasure in the Marines. It enjoyed their brass band, their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement...
...demonstration on CBS's Hobby Lobby last week was as trustworthy as it looked, Howard Klein of Philadelphia is a man of alarming powers. He could theoretically hypnotize a large part of the entire U.S. audience at one fell coo...
...florid soprano air. Dinicu's Hora Staccato as a Rumanian showpiece for concert violinists. Last fortnight these two pieces went into an RCA recording studio in Manhattan and got lost somewhere in the groove. Even the names were changed: to Heavy Traffic on Canal Street and Coo-Dinny-Coo. This Victor recording provided the light-fingered New Friends of Rhythm with one of its most successful jam sessions to date...
...four doves of peace with no place to coo" (TIME, 9/18/39, p. 30, col. 3) ; "pulpitation" (ibid, p. 63, col. i); "plunderbund" (ibid, p. 76, col. 2) ; "absinthe-mindedly" (ibid...
...sometimes suggested naively, and not always by women, that the explanation of Hitler's harsh personality and policies is his bachelorhood-his indifference to the charm of women and the lack of children of his own. How much this theory smacks of the coo-and-goo philosophy which Hollywood gravely asks us to accept daily on our screens is apparent when we look for example at the private lives of Hitler's two "also-ran" fellow dictators. Mussolini is very much the family man, but there is no evidence that Signora Mussolini or the several little Mussolinis have...