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...Most engaging aspect of the situation, however, lay directly across the Sea of Japan. There lay Vladivostok, which since the Japanese annexation of Korea has become the "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan." There lay the Maritime Provinces of the U.S.S.R. and, inland, all of Siberia that a hungry Japan could swallow. The prospect was enough to make the Japanese militarists temporarily forget all about Southward Ho! Furthermore, if Germany takes western Russia, Japan may have to invade Siberia in self-defense...
Today 38,000 Yugoslavs wear the Chetnik uniform (blue serge tunic with skull-&-bones insignia, dagger, black socks embroidered with roses) and there are many more secret members, but among them are not more than ten women. The American woman who joined them was Ruth Mitchell, a native of Milwaukee, sister of the late, famed U.S. airman, General William ("Billy") Mitchell, ex-wife of two Britons, mother of a son with the R.A.F. in Africa...
Dean Landis was awarded by popular acclaim the prize for effort; Professor Griswold received the strainer for being under the most strain for the evening. For knifing the interlocutor, William Hardee received the dagger and Mrs. Maguire got the happy wooden hen. The grand prizes, sets of the most popular encyclopedia, the World almanac, went to Judge Magruder, Professor Griswold, John Richardson, and Mrs. Follansbee
...bullfight. The band blasts Cheek to Cheek; the stunted bull comes out, soils himself and trembles when at length he comes to "sense the purpose of his presence"; tries to escape, is tortured into the open ring and dealt loathsome, blundering wounds. Finished off with a dagger, he kneels gently like a child in prayer and his head sinks to earth. The band plays Cheek to Cheek and another little bull trots...
...Biggest recorded audience for any program was that attracted by Franklin Roosevelt's "dagger-in-the-back" speech from Charlottesville, Va. It rated 45.5 in the C. A. B. chart...