Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simultaneously with last week's flight of clerks, officials and foreign diplomats up the Yangtze, Generalissimo Chiang brought down the river enormous levies of fresh Chinese troops, and these were flung against the advancing Japanese. General Pau Chung-hsi, chief of staff, advised that from a military point of view it would be best to make no attempt to defend Nanking. Generalissimo Chiang, who during the past seven years has spent millions embellishing his capital and mak-ing it the bright symbol of New China, unhesitatingly ordered Nanking's defense at any cost. "One day we intend...
With her own hand, according to London dispatches last week, Queen Elizabeth adjusted the towels in a guest bathroom at Buckingham Palace and placed there a fresh cake of soap bearing the British royal arms. This was for the use of King Leopold III of the Belgians, whose state visit went off in glittering, uneventful style as scheduled (TIME, Nov. 22). At the last moment before the state ball there was substituted for the Royal Artillery Band, which even courtiers have called "lousy," swank Marshall's Orchestra. For the first time at Buckingham Palace the crowned heads danced...
...child artists who have begun to make news in Federal Art Project classes are as fresh as cinema tots are synthetic. Last week the first U. S. art gallery devoted exclusively to work by 4-to-15-year-old talents opened in Washington, sponsored jointly by WPA and city officials. But a Federal Art Project class in Manhattan stole the children's show of the week with an exhibition of paintings, under each of which WPA Instructor Victor Laredo had stuck the artist's verbal description of his work. Samples: ¶ "Hey, you know who this...
...force by endearing benignity. He was just as endearing nearly 18 years ago when, with the late Ed Gallagher, he stepped out on a Bronx vaudeville stage to introduce a refrain that still echoes its "Positively, Mr. Gallagher. Absolutely, Mr. Shean." Gallagher & Shean kept the nation chuckling over their fresh lyrical topicalities for five years, until fame and boomtime stage salaries went to Gallagher's head. He dissipated fortune and health, died almost penniless. Shean preserved his equilibrium and his money, played on Broadway in Light Wines and Beer, Music in the Air, returned to, Hollywood...
...through formaidehyde and other substances in the biology laboratories, the chickens are ready to go on with rehearsal for a few more days. It is expected, however, that a fresh supply will be needed before the show opens in Boston...