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Meanwhile Mme Chiang, in her daily column to the U. S. press, radioed from Nanking: "Tokyo's acclamation of Matsui as a hero on Chinese soil has gone to his head . . . strongest wine of militaristic adulation . . . Japanese war lords drunk with their hollow success at Shanghai . . . power lust...
Across the street three boys were rolling beer cans on the sidewalk; they sounded hollow against the rough cement...
...Hollow, yes, like my mind. Dark, long thoughts envelop my brain fibres; the process of thinking is one constant torment, one anguish that has no end nor beginning. I'm not saying anything, foolish person; I am only feeling, feeling the pits of despondecy...
...unit plan through the House last week, its supporters had to amend the rules so that instead of a two-thirds majority it needed only a simple majority to pass. When it finally passed, 51 to 44. there still remained a fair chance that the victory would prove a hollow one. Tennessee Courts were promptly asked to rule on a claim that five members of the majority which passed it had no right to their seats because they also held other State offices. Even if the five members are not unseated, thus nullifying the passage of the bill, wily Boss...
...Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This, the most elaborate Leftist offensive yet attempted, was handed over to General Sebastian Pozas, a greying, hollow-eyed officer who looks more like an Anglican bishop than a soldier...