Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese warships. Infantry swarmed in only after the tanks had dashed back & forth through the streets of Tazang, "shooting up the town" to break Chinese morale. Behind the Japanese troops came Japanese armored cars and "mopping up squads." These found such grim evidence of stubborn resistance in the face of certain death as Chinese machine gunners who had handcuffed themselves to their guns and died at their posts...
...wheel of his auto, ten miles north of Bakersfield, Calif. The car bumped off the road, careened across a five-foot ditch, turned over three times, came to rest on the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Tennist Budge clambered out of the wreck with a few cuts on his face and bruises on his ribs, flagged a motorist to take him to Bakersfield...
...Alabama's dreams come true, it is likely to face California on New Year's Day. This seemed certain last week after California had won its seventh-in-a-row- 27-to-14, from...
...memoirs of operatic divas go, one in which the author admits she is plump, is not too boastful about herself or too jealous of her peers, is on its face noteworthy. Such a volume (ghosted by Dorothy Giles) is Men, Women and Tenors* by Frances Alda. Long a capable Metropolitan Opera Soprano, first wife of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mme Alda launches her book with much of the triumphant, glassy-smiling air of a diva squaring off at a high C. Says her introduction: "For 50 years (everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows...
...alleys, he leapt over cliffs and fell through the air like a feather; he walked into a store with a big glass window and bought an automobile; a girl with a flopping white hat chased him up a flight of stairs (he remembered thinking that he had seen her face before. In Boston?): he saw beer cans dropping from the ceiling. Dawn approached, and his blankets and sheets lay messed...