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When a Japanese stares ardently at a pretty woman, his eyes dwell neither on her legs nor on her figure but on the suggestive curve of her neck. On "ladies day" last week the visitors' gallery of the House of Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school. Neither Peers nor newshawks could restrain smoldering glances at the visitors' necks, chalk-white with rice powder. The genteel interplay of glances was abruptly interrupted by Imperialist Baron Ryoitsu Asada...
Slump. To dwell long on the sad state of trade would have been no gesture of friendship to the New Deal which has the slump already too much with it. Therefore, the topic of most concern to businessmen was little touched on publicly. One man, however, raised the doleful subject in no uncertain terms: Virgil Jordan, president of the fact-finding National Industrial Conference Board. He declared...
...father got a job there wasn't anywhere to dwell...
...wisdom is attested by the fact that many needed improvements have been foregone to prevent its citizens from being burdened with debts. The outstanding obligations of the municipality are less than $12,000. We have no jail because we don't need one. In the entire community dwell 8,000 Negroes and we have not had a capital crime in 13 years. . . . The citizens of Mound Bayou dwell in security. They are the heirs of freedom . . . and will forever look with disdain on acts of tyranny...
...questions and willingness on the part of purveyors of information to let them make up their own minds. An application of this theory to tonight's affair should have been made. It would not have been difficult to add to the list of speakers a rebel sympathizer who would dwell upon the Fascist solution of the Spanish struggle. It might even have been possible to advance one more step and invite a detached observer whose particular interest centered upon the international complications arising out of the civil war. A program incorporating these three features would leave little to be desired...