Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstanding in the U. S. Midwest for the competence of its foreign news coverage and the number of its special correspondents, Chicago's Daily News printed last week much matter which the Chinese Government's censors had slashed out of its Shanghai correspondents' dispatches during the Japanese advance to capture Nanking, the former Chinese capital (TIME, Nov. 29, et seq.). Examples of what was slashed...
During the World War no correspondent would have dreamed of handing to a French or German censor a dispatch containing such obvious dynamite, however correct, and the placid Chinese censor as a matter of fact indulged Chicago's Daily News to the extent of passing this: "Only one thing can save the Chinese Army now, this correspondent learns-continued torrential rains for three days." What made all this timely last week was that Japanese forces were at the moment approaching the great Shantung city of Tsingtao and in it Chinese looters, firebugs, panic-stricken soldiers and gangsters were creating...
Annabella is the principal star in "Dinner at the Ritz," and not one in a thousand will disagree with the statement that no matter how unfortunate the picture, she still appears beautiful. The English have considerable in Annabella, but since "Wings of the Morning" they have found nothing decent in which to cast her. It is disturbing to see her as three different women,--as a Spanish marquesa, an Indian princess, and a petite French blonde (which part seems most natural); it is more disturbing to have her moved from Paris to Monte Carlo to the yacht "Seagull" to Pringle...
...Englanders are often accused of aggressive provincialism, and few of them would go much out of their way to deny the charge. Usually they simply assume that it is a New Yorker who is trying to turn the conversation toward his own superior cosmopolitanism, and give the matter no further thought...
...Indigent matter cannot be eaten without serious consequences...