Word: festas
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...sent food and clothing to the captives, but there is no news to hand that these unfortunates have received them. Another report states that the captives are having a "wonderful time"; the British think it is a " topping excursion "; the Yanks are doing " durned fine "; the Italians " facendo una festa"; the Japs and the Chinks, with their oriental stoicism, say nothing. Then a charge of tragedy is shot into the practical joke when it is announced that the captives are dying of hunger or exposure. On the whole, it seems that the captive foreigners are not likely to be badly...