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...Unconvinced. The reason he is there is U.S. foreign policy, which he neither understands nor recognizes: U.S. forces are in China by international agreement, to support the Chinese Central Government. The average marine's reaction to that: "The hell with it-let's get outta here." As for preserving North China from the Communists, many marines say: "When we leave, the Communists will take it anyway-so why not let them have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Jacfu on the Railroad | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...college girls givva more da mon' den da boys? Well, mebby, sometime. Nobody givva much in da cold weather. I maka most my mon' in spring, when it's warm an' da folks hang outta da window". Thus did Joe the hurdy-gurdy man, whose rickety cart, boney horse and barking dog are familiar figures in Cambridge, sum up his business prospects, without realizing that he was undergoing an interview with a CRIMSON reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Joe the Organ-Grinder Admits Superior Eleemosynary Spirit in Girls--His Horse's Left Hind Foot Once a Target | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...know, Joe I always think what are you and me and Louie and the rest of the boys going to do when we get outta here. Ever think about that, Joe? I often wonder...

Author: By G. K. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

...this new glorification of the melting pot, all the trouble starts when Mr. Van Dorn, blueblood, announces a prejudice against the prospect of an Italian daughter-in-law and a Jewish son-in-law. "We gotta get outta this neighborhood!" shouts the agitated aristocrat again and again. He thinks that, by moving, the love of democratic young Americans can be thwarted. Mrs. Van Dorn disapproves of her husband's arbitrary ways. Through her, Playwright William Perlman brings out the salient point that Mr. Van Dorn is not justified in assuming Castilian airs, because, even if the Van Dorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

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