Word: nage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimifz went the honorary rank of chief of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan and the aboriginal monicker Be-Lea-Nage (The Winner). And to the nation from the Admiral went an announcement: he would retire from active duty around the middle of December...
...Roosevelt had metaphorically slapped the face of China asking for war aid. The President told Congress in his annual mes sage last January: "Even today we are flying as much Lend-Lease material into China as ever traversed the Burma Road." Says Lin Yutang: "I knew the exact ton nage being flown in, which no official has dared to make public. ..." For nights Dr. Lin lay awake "thinking, thinking, thinking of how to break the solid wall of the Washington blockade of supplies for China." This book is a small but potent charge of moral and political explosive laid under...
...wrote Hitchy-Koo, 1919, then doubled back to Europe. There he married fashionable, Louisville-bred Linda Lee Thomas, and with the help of a $1,000,000 (coal mines, timberland) bequest from a grandfather, plunged into post-war international society at its gaudiest. The Porters' Paris ménage had a room done up in platinum; their Venetian palazzo, once inhabited by the Brownings, was the scene of fabulous parties featuring Porter's crony Edgar Montillion (Monty) Woolley. Porter invented an American couple named Fitch and stuffed the society columns with accounts of their European triumphs...
...mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn Joslyn); six lighthearted cadets from the Portuguese merchant marine. Eileen's global charms inspire the sailors to do a mass conga that lands her in jail. At last...
...ebullient amanuensis Archie Goodwin are here at top form in two "novellas" -"Black Orchids" and "Cordially Invited to Meet Death." The first concerns a cleverly contrived murder at New York's annual Flower Show. The second features an adroit bit of poisoning in the fantastic Riverdale ménage- and menagerie-of a successful party-arranger for Manhattan society. First-class entertainment...