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...mothers, after which public enemy number one comes forward to bewail the fact in a variety of ingenious ways that she can produce only one at a time. Il Duce appears again, as one of the "Four Little Angels of Peace," the others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation of war, carried out by rather obscure ballet, and jibes are distributed to the Vassar girl who finds a job at Macy's, the upper crust on a slumming party, the 100 percent American...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

...vast customs revenues from reaching Generalissimo Chiang. Chinese cable censorship at Shanghai was abolished, the Japanese not imposing this week censorship of their own. Expulsion of Chinese officials from Shanghai Govern-ment buildings was decreed. Chinese and foreigners alike were sternly warned by Japanese authorities to eschew anti-Jap-anese and pro-Communist activities of every sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Things Upside Down | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Streamers of colored paper linked ship and pier, bright specks of confetti dotted the air between waving throngs on the dock and the gay crowd on the liner's deck high above them. "Good-by," "Don't let a Jap bomb get you," "Take care of yourself.'' Through milling travelers on deck stewards wove their way, intoning, "All ashore that's going ashore." Ninety passengers aboard the Dollar Line's President Jackson thought last week they were bound on a long voyage from Seattle to the Orient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Demoted Liners | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...been to Pike's Peak and busted. Louis was a years character; he had twelve children and eleven years of marriage. "One each year of wedlock," he said, ignoring the first born. Louis had a hapa-Pake, hapa-Hawaiian wife; she had had another husband, a Jap, whom she married for his washing machine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/1/1937 | See Source »

Harvardians in general may feel little direct effect from the present Sino-Jap war, but not so the Harvard Law Review, Law School legal publication, which travels all over the world. For an alarming number of Chinese subscriptions to the Review have been cancelled, according to Robert Amory Jr., 3L, treasurer of the magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHINESE STRUGGLE AFFECTS LAW REVIEW SUBSCRIPTIONS | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

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