Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Empire was said to be ready to declare "outlawed"the Chinese Generalis simo, famed Chiang Kaishek, who mean while last week himself held a supreme Chinese conference on strategy. To replace "Outlaw Chiang," the Japanese Government proposed to set up a new central Chinese Government, not another venal gang of mere puppets, such as those already established at Peking and Nanking, but a State headed by the Scholar Marshal, famed Wu Pei-fu. Marshal Wu had a long and brilliant military career under the Manchu Dynasty, thus might see eye-to-eye with a Japanese scheme to restore as Emperor...
...Disney Silly Symphonies are the product of a big corporation employing 75 animators, 150 copyists and a gang of gagmen, musicians and technicians. They are first drawn on large celluloid sheets, superimposed and then photographed one by one. Len Lye, however, paints or stencils his designs by hand, slowly and methodically, on the thin ribbon of film stock itself. Some of the names Len Lye gave to musical effects: "a splurged woomph" (drum beat), "a zing-a-zing-a-zing-a-zing" (violin), "flutter" (clarinet...
...that although he was still uncertain about all the poems he would read, he had already made several choices. These included the following: "A Speek," "Departmental," "The Silken Therad," "Two Tramps in Mud-Time," "Happiness Makes Up in Height For What It Lacks In Length," "Birches," and "The Time Gang...
Cissie Patterson's chain gang departed, but she continued her fight with the President over the number of trees involved. At his press conference he said she was flimflamming the public to get circulation. Her last word was a cartoon showing a disreputable figure labeled "Flimflam Politics" saying, "All right, so we LIED to you-so what? And we're cutting down your damn CHERRY TREES...
Then in a poem called "Pictures," he describes a Southern slave-gang...