Word: left
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cantonese, has a horror of a characteristic Cantonese delicacy, roast snake. Once at an elaborate banquet he complimented his host on a dish he had never tasted before. Told it was "jumping dragon," a deadly Kwangtung snake, he called for water, washed his mouth over a dozen times, left the banquet, went to bed, called Cantonese physicians, was not satisfied until he had gone all the way to Peking and had his stomach examined. The snake Patriot Wang hates most of all is Wang Ching...
...didn't the Allies at once send planes to Poland? Because Poland had '"her eyes gouged out" so quickly, her Air .Force smashed before it left the ground, her airfields so pocked with bombs that .Allied planes could not have landed when they got there. To this add the facts that it takes eight service men on the ground ito keep one plane in the air, and that there was none too much airplane gasoline in Poland. Finally, the Nazi Air Force was enormously stronger, from its myriad small home bases, than an expeditionary air force could have...
...wanted to tell the Browning to take the course of the Royal Sceptre. The Browning sighted us, and to my surprise the crew manned the boats in a panic. Before I could even draw closer to give my peaceful message, all the passengers and crew of the Browning had left the ship. I now had to make it clear to those terrified people that they were to get back into the boat again and save the crew of the Royal Sceptre. The joy and relief of those in the boats surprised us. Did they believe us to be barbarians? Taking...
...sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George) after she left Duke for nonpayment of rent, has brought David up sheltered from the realities of life. A freshman at Stafford, David begins to sample the realities when, egged on by moony old Professor Dopey Daniels (Roland Young), he visits Father No.1, is shocked to find that life for Duke is mostly beer...
...puerperal (childbed) fever caused by Streptococcus haemolyticus more than 3,000 U. S. women die every year. Although sulfanilamide has miraculously cured thousands of puerperal infections, physicians have long sought an equally sure preventive, for most survivors of this ravaging fever are left weakened for life, or mutilated by necessary operations...