Word: nanning
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...Tsung-hsi, to look over that vital area on the Kwantung army's flank. Perhaps, as some Chinese think, Itagaki may time an attack to protect his flank and close the long-unclosed "China Incident." Else General Pai and China's northern armies under General Hu Tsung-nan may be stout aids to General Stern in Siberia...
...Giovanni Martinelli roared louder. The summer opera season in Cincinnati's Zoo (with Ponchielli's 66-year-old La Gioconda) was on. Except for four operatic finds, it was much like other seasons. The four finds (chosen from 3,000 operatic aspirants recruited through nationwide radio auditions): Nan Merriman, a dimpled, 22-year-old brunette from California, who made her debut disguised in the stage wrinkles of old La Cieca in La Gioconda; Dorothy Ann Short, a 19-year-old University of Washington coed; Max Condon, a six-foot-two tenor; Baritone Mac Morgan, a former Eastman School...
Twentieth Century has been considerably disturbed because Sal's big secret leaked out: Rita Hayworth's Grade-A singing voice belongs to Radio Songstress Nan Wynn. Fortunately for all concerned, the voice sounds like Rita. And no pseudonymous voice ever had a more attractive sponsor...
...still her largest, wholesale customer, California's I. Magnin chain of high falutin women's specialty shops. Within a few years, stores like Neiman Marcus in Dallas, Mrs. Blum's in Chicago (who said Nettie could get "more money for four seams than anyone else"), Nan Duskin's in Philadelphia, were proud to snag exclusive sales rights to Rosenstein models that set them back 60-$300 apiece, wholesale.* During the '20s, when the best was supposed to come from Paris, U.S. dress makers sold these fancy models under their own labels -plus an awed whisper...
...fact, no longer Singapore. Imperial Headquarters, with a go-ahead from the Emperor, had renamed the island, its harbor and its city Shonan. Sho was from Showa, which designates the enlightened era of Hirohito. Nan means south. Singapore was now Light of the South...