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...Holmes's "Our nation stands dis graced before the world" reminds me of "the nine tailors of Tooley Street." He covers too much territory, and his own language is too atomic. A few more nouns like atrocity, outrage, perpetrator, crime, and adjectives such as hideous, disgraced, monstrous dropped from Dr. Holmes's lingual superbomber, would make us all want to crawl into holes and pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate...
Nobody planned, in August or September, that things would happen this way in China in November. The world's most powerful nation was not then ready to plan the peace of the most populous. We acted on hope and in furtherance of Japanese dis armament. Now Americans may duck out, but the U.S. has gone too deeply into the China affair to duck all responsibility for what may ensue. If all-out civil war develops, our moral position may be more uncomfortable than...
...since sung the part more than 1,200 times. He has also made concert tours, taught singing, had a key spot in Broadway's Cabin in the Sky, floundered through a jive film called Syncopation. (Says Todd Duncan: "Hollywood's not looking for my type. Dis, dat, dese-I can learn to talk that way but not very well...
...were brought to the U.S. by a re turned G.I., Lincoln Kirstein, balletomane son of the late board chairman of Boston's Filene's department store. Along with the stuff that was just what Hitler ordered was some he didn't like. Much of his dis like was concentrated on the bold inventiveness which made Germany's famed Bauhaus school an international incubator of tubular steel chairs, "functional" flat-roofed glass-and-concrete houses, and abstract paintings like Lyonel Feininger's Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria...
...surprised at her popularity among U.S. servicemen (who liked to listen to her program of old jukebox favorites, which were intended to make G.I.s home sick) and amazed that anyone would be lieve she had done her native U.S. wrong: "I didn't think I was doing anything dis loyal." According to Iva, two other girls dou bled on the Zero Hour, one American, one Canadian - and if anything bad was said, they said it. The continuity was written, she said, by a Captain Charles Cousins, an Australian captured at Singapore, and a U.S. Army captain named Ince...