Word: lungful
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...trumpet at the age of fourteen and worked first as a bugle boy in an army camp down in Louisiana. "The boys came runnin' fast for eats when I let go on that mess call." And now his trumpets ("Lil' Satchel-mouth") don't last up long under Louis' lung power. The intricate instrument of shining brass he plays today he's had only since 1933, and he's already ordered a new one made...
...Good Earth's theme is the love of the Chinese peasant for his land and his dependence upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter...
Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...
Coaxed into posing together at the Miami Biltmore Hotel were George Ade, 71, oldtime Indiana humorist, lately recuperated from a lung infection, and Annette Kellerman, 49. oldtime exhibition natator. scheduled for a Miami exhibition next month. Mr. Ade. as quoted by Miami publicity men: "This is the first time I have been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered." On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson...
...Roosevelt, as a scientifically inclined psychologist, he could not have justified his sweeping statement. As is so often the case with European scientists and "observers," the American mentality, the American concept and interpretation of democracy, and the true causes on which these are based, are foreign to Dr. .lung. He discovers Negroid and Indian traits in our mentality while he doesn't see that the Negroes, Indians and we whites have been molded by the same American environment. He accuses Mr. Roosevelt of "the Mussolini substance" while it should be evident even to the most casual observer that...