Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hsinking (Changchun), new capital of Manchukuo, settled down and sobered up after an exhausting fortnight. With great relief Emperor Kang Teh put aside his dragon robes, wandered about his garden in a U. S. sack suit with a green fountain pen protruding from a vest pocket. After playing with his mastiff and smoking a great many cigarets, he sent for and read all the foreign comments he could find, and ate. with little relish, a dinner of sharks' fins, "Buddha's ears" mushrooms, dove's eggs, octopus tentacles and lily roots...
...artistic subsidiary of onetime Ambassador Alanson Bigelow Houghton's big Corning Glass Works. Visitors beheld a coruscant and cleverly lit display of wine glasses, bowls, plates, bottles, candlesticks, vases; a tableful of heavy molded "architectural" glass for cornices, tiles, columns. Prize of the show was a slender glass fountain by Sydney B. Waugh, 1929 Prix de Rome winner. Other exhibits: a pair of glass slippers made to fit Gloria Swanson; a replica of Steuben's 16 by 8 in. glass casket in which, in Santo Domingo City, repose a few handfuls of ashes that were once supposed...
...called down daily upon the Senate and the House by Chaplains Ze Barney Thome Phillips (right in cut below) and James Shera Montgomery, respectively. House Chaplain Montgomery (Methodist) was less flowery than Senate Chaplain Phillips (Episcopalian). On opening day last week the latter began, "God of our fathers, Fountain of light and love, before whose boundless gaze the seasons roll in majesty and might, and man, Thy miniature divine, was made to walk the earth in joy; incline, at this momentous hour of the newborn year, our thoughts to prayer, our lips to praise...
...years of patriotic Shinto prayer for a boy at last-a new Son of Heaven. Auspiciously the Empress's labor grew most severe last week just as Japan's sun was about to rise and burst refulgent on the Imperial Maternity Pavilion, freshly built in the Fountain Garden of Tokyo's moat-encircled Chiyoda Palace. Minute by minute they approached-the Sun Goddess and the Imperial Child-in what to Japanese courtiers standing motionless in full regalia with faces reverently blank seemed a divine unison. In an adjoining room of the Pavilion stoically waited His Imperial Majesty...
...eyebrows, as though engaged in a perpetual closeup. but otherwise her acting and good looks have been improved. There is a sharp flicker of vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that she was born in Bainbridge, Ga., 29 years ago and can still remember her Southern accent...