Word: far-off
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...play piano . . . . Saxie Dowell, author of that damn tune about some fish, broke his arm recently at Atlantic Beach. That about evens it up . . . It also seems as if last year's deluge of bad swing has given up the ghost. Future outlook is marred only by the far-off swish of Sammy Kaye...
...Painter Curry: "Building the barbed wire fences closed forever the open range, and behind these fences developed a different economic and social order." Both panels are nine by 20 feet, painted in the standard Curry colors-reds for Oklahoma's dust and soil, gold for sunlight, green for far-off fields of grain. Curry considers them much finer than his Department of Justice murals, finished...
...far-off Oslo, New York's ham-handed Representative Ham Fish, four Senators and 24 Representatives were last week spending $10,000 in the only big Congressional junket of the year, the annual trip to the meeting of the Interparliamentary Union. Still happily present in Mr. Fish's memory was his coup of last January, when he and 50 Republicans outsmarted bumbling Leader Alben Barkley, ousted him from his plushy post as head junketeer to the Union sessions (TIME, Jan. 30). But Mr. Fish also found a little sour milk in his junket. Before he sailed for Oslo...
...international settlement where foreign devils maintained their own "extraterritorial" courts and police power. But today were it not for these international areas the Chinese would not be able to carry on as well as they do against the Japanese. The political capital of Chiang's Government is now far-off Chungking but for Westerners its financial capital is in the foreign enclaves, particularly Hong Kong and Shanghai. The Japanese are bitterly aware of this. They have not yet dared seize the international settlement of Shang hai and other foreign areas of cities but they have tried gradual encroachment...
...justification for their dominion over the Holy Land, the Hebrews point to past days of Biblical glory. However, such a far-off historical precedent does not warrant depriving the Arabs of a land they have held for over twelve hundred years. Deplorable as may be the persecution of the Jews in several European countries, the need for a haven of refuge is no excuse for them to oust a Moslem population of twice their number. One cannot help but sympathize with these desert dwellers in their fight against inundation by a flood of alien settlers, who have a diametrically opposed...