Word: facings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unchained (but not so deliberately recently)-needed any sales points to make the deal palatable at home, they were available. General belief was that they would scarcely take the trouble. They did not even bother to reveal who had undertaken the preliminaries to the greatest and quietest diplomatic about-face in modern European history...
...lives, they cannot strip us of our respectability." Though Britons long since ceased painting themselves for battle, they were blue all over last week about their position on the Far Eastern Front of the War of Nerves. The Japanese, having stripped Far Eastern Britons of clothes and Face (Oriental for respectability), moved troops into position along the border of Hong Kong territory to be ready, if necessary, to take lives as well...
Last December the U. S. extended China a credit of $25,000,000 for farm and industrial purchases. In March Great Britain followed suit with a credit for the same amount, to support Chinese currency. These two loans put a deceptive rouge on China's pale financial face. Last week Chinese officials in Chungking said that Soviet Russia would soon lend China 700,000,000 rubles ($140,000,000), that a preliminary loan of $30,000,000 had been settled. If the huge credit goes through, China's face will get some really healthy color...
...Boys-from-Syracuse fixes have complicated the steady lives of the boys from Rochester, but they face routine confusions. Recent example: a friend mistook Bill for Rob on Main Street, apologized for his error when Bill identified himself. Few days later he stopped Bill again and told him of his mistake, again sure he was Rob. Bill did not bother to explain. After 70 years it is an old story...
...Howard found that the songs of U. S. tots, often accompanied by ritualistic fingerpointing, spitting, face-making and nose-thumbing, were savage but cheerful in spirit, had "a Rabelaisian flavor." Sample...