Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intense fighting was continuing at 2 a.m. and additional areas of the city, which has a normal population of 250,000 including about 38 Americans and 189 Britons, were in flames. The U.S. Gunboat Asheville was prepared to evacuate Americans from the international settlement on Kulangsu Island at any moment...
Wajan (Dr. Friedrich Dalsheim and Baron Victor von Plessan), a sympathetic record of Balinese ritual, is much more fully clothed than its popular predecessor of six years ago, Goona-Goona. Its exotic climax, a witch-exorcising trance dance, gives pictorial point to the recent reporting of Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias (Island of Bali) and Novelist Vicki Baum (Tale of Bali). Produced before either book was written, Wajan has been held up by years of litigation following the suicide in Germany of Jewish Dr. Dalsheim (The Wedding of Palo, The Head Hunters of Borneo), in the early days of the Hitler regime...
...office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island to see J. P. Morgan himself. "Mr. Morgan was shocked beyond measure. He gave me his judgment that there was no course for us to follow except to abide by the advice we had received...
Playing one of its best offensive games of the season, the rugby club swamped a Long Island team 15-3 on Saturday...
...YORK--Madeleine Carroll, England's blonde gift to Hollywood, brought her classic profile to Columbia University today to find out why members of the senior class chose her as "the College man's ideal companion on a desert Island." She didn't find out. The boys served her tea, showed her the beauties of Morningside Heights at sunset, but refused blushingly to collaborate on the reasons they chose her, foremost of which in the poll was "her ability to speak French." Only 50 of Columbia's students were permitted to meet her David Periman, editor of the Columbia Spectator, selected...