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Biarritz townspeople were at first resentful of the G.I. occupation of loo-odd of their famed hotels and villas, now invite students to dinner. The roulette wheels were stored away at the famed Casino, which became a hushed library supervised by a whispering ex-artilleryman. A prankish billeting officer quartered ten mild professors in what had once been the fanciest whorehouse in town. The professors were bothered almost nightly by old customers...
...Tokyo a publishing association planned to print 50,000 English dictionaries for the schools, and civic leaders were promoting a loo-million-yen ($650,-500) amusement center for U.S. troops. It would provide billiards, rifle shooting, golf, tennis, fried fish, sweet bean soup, tea and souvenirs. An entertainment association advertised for 5,000 professional hostesses and 3,000 women entertainers, including dancers, waitresses and daruma geisha. As distinguished from real geisha, who excel at conversation, the daruma geisha are named after daruma dolls, which have round, weighted bases and push over easily...
...loo mung. American visitors to the Espey home usually called spindly-legged little John Espey "Toothpicks" or "Droopy Drawers." But to the Chinese servants he was "the only son of an only son, first cousin to the President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only...
...very convincing religious dialogues, however, there is a good deal of swift and explosive air combat, about as exciting as such material can hope to be, after it has been filmed so well and so often. A California-trained, English-speaking Japanese ace named Tokyo Joe (Richard Loo) adds a novel note of hatred by gritting "Yenkk" and other Homeric epithets into his cockpit radio, and meets his death in a long delirious streaking fall over fleabitten mountains, which is perhaps the best shot in the picture. Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, John Ridgely and (barring some fancy eye-rolling) Raymond...
Ching La Yin, a Chow, operator of a laundry and collar pressing establishment... "Voly had, sitilation practically intolilable. Have thiee sons, Ching Lo, Ching Loo, and Ching Loo. Two are in Army, one is Plivate first class, other is not so Plivate, second class. Other...