Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designated by the name of an animal. Last week the Chinese celebrated the end of the year of the tiger, the beginning of the year of the hare and the 592nd day of their war with Japan. At Chungking, China's capital in the far west, the New Life Movement marked the day with a traditional fair, suitably modified for a China at war. The most patronized concession: a "beat the Japanese" booth where patriotic Chinese could throw balls at caricatures of such Japanese worthies as Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, his predecessor, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, Minister for War Lieut...
...story of Made for Each Other is not really a story at all. It is merely the record of experiences-some funny, some tragic, but all appallingly convincing-shared by the Masons in the first two or three years of their life together. The record includes the consequences of a cold the baby catches because he has to sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother...
...laboratory at Bar Harbor, Me., Dr. Little every year breeds 50,000 mice with hereditary cancers. But this does not mean that cancer is hereditary in humans, he says, for the mice may be inbred for 15 or 20 generations before cancer becomes part of their physiological heritage. "Life . . . superimposes so many varying circumstances and facts that any hereditary tendency so far detected may easily become swamped by other influences. . . . The risk of having cancer because one or both parents had it is not of practical importance...
With such implacable people Playwright Hellman has dealt implacably, exerting against them a moral pressure to match their own immoral strength. Both the Hubbards and their playwright-inquisitor work at a pitch too relentless for real life. But it is the special nature of the theatre to raise emotions to higher power, somewhat simplifying, somewhat exaggerating, but tremendously intensifying. Playwright Hellman makes her plot crouch, coil, dart like a snake; lets her big scenes turn boldly on melodrama. Melodrama has become a word to frighten nice-nelly playwrights with; but, beyond its own power to excite, it can stir...
...Patriot. Like all Poles, Paderewski is a fervent patriot. For him only one thing has been more important than his music: his life-long dream of an independent Poland. When the World War broke, Paderewski saw his big chance to make that dream come true. For the duration of the War he toured England and the U. S., playing, speaking at dinners, lobbying with politicians, devoting all the proceeds of his concerts to Polish relief. At this tea-table politics he was a great success. In 1917, with the help of his close friend, Colonel House, he prevailed upon President...