Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names mean less than pay cuts. When Dutch and native sailors in Her Majesty's Navy had their wages docked last month, respectively 14% and 17% an ugly mutiny followed at the principal naval base of the huge Island of Java. Promptly 400 mutineers were thrown into jail, where they still were last week...
...packages, about half in bulk. Out of the Niagaran spout are poured 60 billion cups a year?one and one-third cups daily for every U. S. man, woman & child. Two-thirds of the coffee for the big U. S. pot comes from Brazil. Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, Java, Mocha and other tropical lands furnish the other one-third, mild coffees which are blended with the strong Brazilian. Using a million bags a month, the U. S. last week had visible stocks which would keep the big pot full for another 20 days. The Farm Board has another...
...Anthony, brought more satisfactory literary acclaim. Now, a familiar U. S. Literary Figure he lives in the old stone Dower House at West Chester, Pa., goes to an office in the business section of the town to write his books. Some of them: The Three Black Pennys, Java Head, Cytherea, Balisand, The Party Dress, The Limestone Tree, Sheridan...
...Wilfred helped finance Eva Gauthier's musical education. She went to Europe. Intelligence and imagination helped her make much of a voice neither opulent nor particularly wide of range. She married a Dutchman (since divorced), went to Java to live. In Java she acquired her liking for Batik gowns and heavy oriental jewelry which seemed to go with her shiny black hair, her curious, slow-spreading smile. When she arrived in the U. S., she had added Javanese folk music to her repertoire...
Songs from Java, jazz songs, songs so old that no one else thought of singing them, songs so new that no one else quite dared to put them on a formal program -in all Eva Gauthier has introduced more than 700 songs. Last week's program was typically distinctive. Jean-Baptiste Lully, court musician to Louis XIV, was a classical beginning far off the beaten track. Then there was Gabriel Faure, the French man who transmitted his fragile, elusive style to the more popular Maurice Ravel. Every song had its mood subtly, surely conveyed. Toward the end a ghoulish...