Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city's restaurants still serve ten-course feasts for those who can pay. We ate such a meal one night as guests of the local newspapermen, whose slightly fantastic prelude to the banquet was the presentation of carefully wrapped samples of the clay, weeds, rice husks and grass on which people were starving not far from our table...
...display looked like a schoolgirl's botany project. The little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's outing in the country, were part of an official report from the China office of UNRRA. The pretty names stood for wild leaves and stems and roots that the peasants of Hunan province (where 5,000,000 face death) have lived on for 40 days...
...over Europe. In Italy, children with spidery legs and leathery skin stalked the streets, struck down by malnutrition (see MEDICINE). Greece, Yugoslavia and Poland were down to a two-weeks' supply of bread grains. In Germany, hungry burghers rooted through refuse; in some parts of China, mud, grass and tree bark were staple foods...
Between the implacable factions writhed the impotent moderates. Cried Chungking's independent Ta Rung Pao: "The corpses of those who have starved to death strew the roads. People eat grass roots and tree bark. . . . Troops are sucking the blood out of villagers. . . . Local officials are making their lives bitter. . . . What makes our hearts ache most is this: all China needs peace, without which we shall not survive. If ambitious persons insist on more adventures, we shall all perish...
...little while the whole film looks intelligent. Such intelligence is the measure of the good movie Devotion might have been. It measures also the general shallowness of feeling, thought and characterization, and the ornate, destructive little successes of the film: a nightmare, silhouettes of black costumes against dead grass, and glimpses of young authoresses in archaic underwear...