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...great Chinese national movement which last week seemed about to give Asiatic history a new twist. It was as though President Roosevelt should have become a Mohammedan and prefaced his New Deal with some such words as: "Our American people seem to me a nation of jazz-loving gum-chewers, profligate instalment-plan buyers, poltroon capitulators to racketeers, gasoline-wasters and coffee-addicts." *See the ablest recent Far East volume, Can China Survive?, by New York Times correspondents Hallett Abend & Anthony J. Billingham (Ives Washburn, Inc. New York, $3). *Died 1908. Her Majesty has just been made the subject...
...recordings of the voices of King Edward, Stalin. Mussolini, Hitler. Emperor Hirohito and President Lin Shen; encyclopedias and newspapers: stainless steel or Monel metal models of furniture, printing presses, automobiles, airplanes, typewriters, etc.: a film projection machine with instructions for its operation; specimens of food, drink and chewing gum. Perishable materials might be sealed in an atmosphere of inert gases like neon or argon...
...Well, I've said enough; but, in pure Australian slang I'll sum up by saying, 'the studies stoushed Amherst, chased the Bruins up a gum tree, and showed that they had the dinkum oil by playing dinki-di football.' Translating this into the King's English (or--in this country of alphabetical politics--into FDR English) this means that the Harvard squad won two victories by playing good football. Now for the Army...
...copies of an issue in which a spade was called a spade with regard to the King and Mrs. Simpson "the Most Envied Woman in the British Empire." Simultaneously suburbanites taking their evening trains home from Manhattan looked up to see among placard advertisements of chewing gum and corn cures a blurb reading "THE YANKEE AT KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite...
...have just been listening to the MARCH OF TIME, the daily enactment of the world's news as presented to you by Professor Bruce Hopper through the courtesy of the makers of Wrigley's gum. And now, these are the days for fall motoring, for beautiful trips through the country to see the foliage. Next time you step into your car, buy a package of Wrigley's gum, and chew a stick while driving. you will find a renewed pleasure in motoring...