Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
...Japanese shelling and bombing increased, Chinese soldiers began stripping off their uniforms, some hurling their naked bodies against the French barbed wire to secure gashes and wounds, understood to be essential for admission to safety in the French Concession. Elsewhere on the Shanghai front Chinese retreated in good order, setting fire to the enormous Japanese-owned Toyoda cotton mills and popping a few Chinese shells into a $1,000,000 U. S.-owned match factory...
...lack of critical interest in the Washington press corps. It seemed ironic to Mr. Rosten that "we have been more concerned with the talents of men who incarcerate animals in public pounds, than with those of the men who have the license to disseminate information about the political order under which we live...
Died. Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, 80, last surviving Japanese graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1881), campaigner in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; in Odawara, Japan. Last week Emperor Hirohito posthumously decorated him with the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers...
...price of books. If a popular magazine is worth five cents, a novel's reading matter must be markedly superior to justify paying 50 times as much for it. In England the sensationally successful Penguin Books, started two years ago with a capital of $500 and a small order from Woolworth's, selling paper-covered books for sixpence, has sold nearly 10,000,000 books. In the U. S. attempts to sell new books for less than $1 have come to grief in the past, and the newest and biggest cheap book venture, Modern Age Books, offering well...