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...Japanese recently boasted that when Chinese soldiers took the offensive against Japanese on the ground, larks in the sky would attack eagles and goldfish in the waters would hunger after sharks. Larks and goldfish still knew their place last week, but not China's fighters. Along a 1,500-mile front they attacked...
...named Sparrow, attired in a linoleum dress suit, submitted himself to a barrage of swill including rotten melons, goldfish, eggs...
...Jody," sold the idea of Philippa Schuyler Day to the World's Fair. With five gardenias in her black curls, Philippa gave two free concerts in a little theatre. She rattled off classics, played some of the 63 pieces she has made up since she was four: The Goldfish, The Jolly Pig, Manhattan Silhouettes. Self-confident but not brash, Philippa explained her Cockroach Ballet...
Undergraduate Vassar, reported Mrs. Allen, has changed greatly in the last 50 years. Girls no longer have to report to their teachers that they have taken two tub baths a week, nor entertain men in Engaged Parlor ("a kind of goldfish bowl"), nor go to chapel. They are almost a full year younger (17.8), two inches taller (5 ft. 5 in.), eleven pounds heavier (126), bigger around the waist, have nearly twice the lung capacity of the class of 1885. They may have men visitors in their rooms (afternoons), import Yale men for male parts in their plays, leave...
Between sessions Chambermen gathered by the goldfish pool in the Chamber patio, compared their New Deal-inflicted wounds. One noon some 100 of them played hookey from a Chamber luncheon, paid an adulatory visit to G. 0. P. Candidate Bob Taft. Close to 400 Senators and Representatives also had meals with the Chambermen, who have a new respect for politicians, since Congress has begun to act as a check on the New Deal...