Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly Hollywood's idea of a Chinese War Lord, burly in figure, greasy but intelligent of face, and with a thin mustache is General Han Fu-chu. Japanese have $100,000,000 invested in the Chinese province of which he is Governor, famed Shantung which juts out into the Yellow Sea facing Japan like the chin of a placid prize-fighter all ready to be clouted. Last week Japanese bombing planes continued to hurl at Tsinan. Han's capital, not death-dealing bombs but attractive offers encased in protective lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck...
There are several fine football sequences, a couple of pleasant songs, Sweet Varsity Sue (lyrically reminiscent of Betty Co-ed of several years back) and Why Talk About Love. Best shots: the Ritzes face down in the mud after a pile up over a loose ball, with a following shot of the imprints their angular bodies have left...
...When George Bernard Shaw told her that tennis should be played by nude young women in the long grass of the meadows, she "tried not to let a flicker of expression cross my face...
...lines of his boat, shuffled his feet and spat over the wharf as though he wanted to step down and talk. The Vagabond hailed him to come aboard. The old salt accepted, and soon they were swapping tales such as only fishermen and sailors can. As the man, his face a grey stubble and his eyes reflecting a quiet pride, forgot the Cambridge puppy squatted before him and became absorbed in his own, other world, there unrolled a story...
...subject had more surprises up his sleeve than other Presidents. Highly unpleasant surprises to many a contemporary, they were nevertheless marked by one characteristic on which all could agree: Jackson's luck. Author James makes hay with the evidence : Jackson's two landslide elections in the face of some of the most savage mud-slinging in U. S. politics; his lucky solution of the four-year Government crisis precipitated by his defense of the notorious black-eyed Peggy Eaton; his strong-armed solution to the problem of South Carolina's attempted secession; collection of a long-outstanding...