Word: feather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...determined Chinese financier K.P. Chen stuck a feather in his cap last week. From Chungking he wired Manhattan's Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan smack on the tung-oil barrel head-nearly two years before the last installment on the loan...
...that has been presented in any of the productions near Harvard Square and is alone worth the admission fee. Along with them comes Edith Bronson playing the role of Lucy, the maid. Her acting is of the most charming sort--and we might add that she is too. Albert Feather, the villain, is done by Jerry McMechan with a dash and swagger that deftly betray his shallow bravado...
Prussian of the East. Tomoyuki Yamashita's exposure to Germanics came early. His course of studies at the Imperial Military Staff College was interrupted shortly before World War I by an order to go to Germany and have a look around. Kaiser Wilhelm, then in his finest military feather and almost ready for war, had done quite a little chanticleering about the then fashionable Yellow Peril, but there were many in Berlin who regarded London as the real root of all evil. Among them was a young philosopher named Karl Haushofer (now Adolf Hitler's theorist on geopolitics...
...door, with a mental prayer that none of the editors would forget to be there. They hadn't: Cleveland, Brookline, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Cincinnati and New York--what a joyous progeny of Uncle Sam! And there, hanging from the chandelier grinning inanely was Inchball, good old Feather stone cough, who never failed to wing his way from Shangri-La for this sad, glad occasion. Vag felt a sudden exuberance, even before the punch was made; he was amoosed though confoosed...
...feather-filled air he finally cornered Butch. As Mr. Morgan described the interview: "He began hollering at me and yelling for me to dismiss Mrs. Preston Davie. . . . 'Fire that dame! Fire that dame!' he kept yelling." Mr. Morgan decided that the time had come. He handed over his resignation. LaGuardia snapped it up. Shouting, "La commedia è finita!,"* opera-loving Fiorello waved Mr. Morgan goodby, threw Mr. Morgan's secretary out after him and demoted Mr. Morgan's chief inspector. Gritted Mr. Morgan: "A complete and utter outrage...