Word: fatness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hans Andersen whose volume of Fairy Tales for the children may be purchased at a low price at the Tientsin Press." Although Chinese pride themselves on their own sense of humor, it never occurred to them that a scholarly British editor, who got out in English each year the fat, solemn, statistics-crammed China Year Book, could possibly have a sense of humor, fantasy and practical joking...
...within and effective financial sanctions without, has-managed to live on its nerves for such a long time, is even more remarkable. However astonishing, the course of events is, nevertheless, explicable, first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well up, suddenly and dramatically, to sweep Mussolini from power. Any other conclusion would seem far fetched and miraculous...
Reviewing of elementary courses, in the manner specified by the Union Committee, is an interesting experiment in solving the problem. Its aim is to provide a worthwhile substitute for a tutoring school. Not only is a fat wallet less liable to buy an education and a diploma under these circumstances, but also the lean one may get, free, much of what a tutorial school can give...
Unlike the lush cinema magazines of the U. S. and Europe, comment in Chinese prints upon cinema stars is earthy, realistic. One could read in Shanghai last week that Butterfly Wu had been chaffed by her public with such good-humored cries as "You're getting too fat! Marshal Chang wouldn't have you now!" Replying with spirit. Miss Wu chaffed back: "I'm not too fat. Have a look! I'll go on making pictures for at least two more years." In China such a job as Butterfly Wu's is not soft...
...also served. Year-end reviews are largely newspaper promotional efforts limited in size only by the amount of advertising available. As publishing phenomena they are not confined to the lay press, but trade journals and business dailies hew closer to the record, indulge in less unadulterated opinion. Preparations for fat year-end business supplements often begin two months in advance, though small news papers may buy a canned review in mat form from United Press for $3. Except for a few charts and tables, however, most of the space-filling articles are contributed free by tycoons, sub-tycoons and assistant...