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...Nepali and Assamese! and four Chinese medical officers. They had nearly 50 patients. They seemed delighted to see us and for vague promises of assistance in the future they were embarrassingly grateful. They showered the most lavish hospitality on us and produced something very like a slap-up Chinese feast out of army rations dropped from the air and from the produce of the savage hillmen's gardens. They are wonderful people, the Chinese. I take off my hat to them every time. Now I'm down with malaria and am having a few days' rest. When...
Light from the Past. In their different ways-the Prime Minister as though he were paying a duty to history, the President as though he were enjoying a feast of wisdom and success-Messrs. Churchill and Roosevelt threw much light on the probable future of the war by explaining its immediate past. In all essentials their recitals to Parliament and to a Washington press conference tallied with each other. According to Churchill and Roosevelt...
Among all the labor bigwigs who attended the C.I.O. convention this month in Boston, no man had more unpleasant news on his mind than Left Wing Communist-inclined Reid Robinson, president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Coming up to Boston for a love feast with Phil Murray and the boys he ended up taking a trip across the continent in a U.S. Army bomber trying to quell mutiny among his own miners...
...hear of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? That was our crowd"). But Clair's shrewish fiancée is a malicious description of an All-American female type; the abortive wedding is vintage Clair; and the lethally heavy quartered-oak set in which this love feast takes place packs enough documentary U.S. satire to stock a whole volume of Sinclair Lewis...
When the sergeant landed, the natives, attired in loincloths and belts of coconut husks, were in the midst of a happy community feast. Main dish: the ten wives of a neighboring tribe's chief...