Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaves Italy, it finds only Libya, Eritrea and Italian Somaliland in Africa for Italian colonies. It is Asia, the East, that gives him the stuff for vast, cloudy dreams. What Japan has done in Manchuria, what France is doing in Yunnan, Italy may well do some day in the Orient...
Last week the eccentric Minister of Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...Cooper), an attractive young man of questionable integrity, is reformed when a baby named Penelope (Shirley Temple) comes into his life. Penelope is his child by an earlier marriage. When first reminded of her, he is having some difficulty meeting the hotel bills incurred in an excursion through the Orient with Toni (Carole Lombard). He is confident that he can sell his unpleasant brother-in-law the right to adopt the child for enough money to perpetuate the irresponsibilities that he enjoys with Toni. It is partly Toni's resentment of this proposed bargain and partly Penelope's charm that...
...they have a tremendous job ahead of them, because losses through graduation and scholastic difficulties have riddled the ranks of last year's squad. And the coaches have been gnashing their teeth and swearing that honor demands a war with Japan. The baseball team in their trip to the Orient has carried off several of Eddie Casey's most promising lights and won't deliver them in Cambridge until after college opens...
...morning last week Professor James Harvey Rogers of Yale reached Singapore in the course of a world junket. Four months ago President Roosevelt sent this snaggle-toothed Brain Truster out to gather all possible facts about silver in the Orient. Professor Rogers had talked long and solemnly with Chinese bankers in Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong, had toured the Yangtze Valley, had written meaty reports back to the U. S. Treasury...