Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 100,000 of the best trained, best equipped troops in Asia, and with them two of China's ablest generals: bushy-browed Chu Teh and bob-haired Mao Tse-tung. The two of them have had a longtime partnership, General Chu being the military expert, General Mao the shrewd politician...
Rassendyll's job is to rescue Rudolf and hand over the throne, so that he can unbosom himself to Flavia. Before he gains his objective Colman proves himself an expert at fighting with tables, has a mighty brisk bout of swordplay with Douglas Fairbanks. Even the tried-&-true finale will seem to a reasonably sentimental audience as good-enough as old-time religion. Because there is a tiny hamlet in Canada (Zenda, Ont.) named in honor of The Prisoner of Zenda, far-fetching Selznick Publicity Man Russell Birdwell fetched Zenda's entire population (12) down to the Manhattan...
Last winter when business and stockmarket were soaring the balance of expert opinion held that stocks would suffer a spring slump, then recover to soar through the fall. Sure enough, the slump started in March, and, assisted by cold water from President Roosevelt, the crack-up of the British commodity boom and the unhappy state of the nation's labor relations, reached bottom in June. For two months thereafter all was well enough, save for the extreme thinness of stock and bond trading. On Aug. 14 Dow-Jones industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then...
...mouths of babes, parents are sometimes horrified to see emitted sturdy pink bubbles which burst with a snapping sound. A child who is expert with bubble gum can blow a globe almost as big as his head. Satisfaction is also to be derived from gulping back bubbles of moderate size, making them pop inside the mouth. As millions of U. S. moppets return to school this month these practices are going to be more prevalent, because September is a peak month for sales of "Blony" bubble...
EUROPE IN ARMS-Liddell Hart-Random House ($2.50). Captain Hart, British military expert who wrote The War in Outline, surveys Europe's armies, predicts the next war will "begin in confusion and end in chaos...