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Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, off to Paris, left behind a collector's item in the field of doodlery. Retrieved from his place at a Washington committee meeting was a matchless example of the rose-o window work of the painstaking blastula school, with the later or packing-box influences of neo-cubism only just becoming apparent...
...make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless innuendos from her husky throat, Actress West caught some of the aplomb, humor and matchless vulgarity of her "Come up and see me some time." But pretty soon her unvaried role began to pull and so, soon after, did her unvarying way of playing...
...noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect for plain success, which leaves him no patience towards artists of integrity who fail at the box office. The combination might explain his matchless skill in producing some of the most intoxicating bits of nihilism the screen has known, but always at the expense of a larger excellence...
...Chinese also look for great coal resources. Copper, critically deficient in the interior, is in Sinkiang; so are iron, molybdenum and other ores. Sinkiang's succulent fruits and melons are a byword in Asia. Its superb cotton, its magnificent horses are all of matchless quality. But peasant immigration must be limited to water resources-three or four millions is probably the maximum total of agricultural pioneers...
Bombing Missions. Chased out of Poland by the Nazis, De Luce was later chased from Greece. He was in Persia during the 1941 fighting, then went on to India, Burma. He rode on bombing missions against the Japs, sent grim stories about Allied inadequacies: "Boys with matchless courage are being slaughtered because they are in inadequate numbers, ill-trained, poorly equipped. . . . The last tired companies of what were proud battalions are -. . . in a galling retreat...