Word: placidness
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...burly in figure, greasy but intelligent of face, and with a thin mustache is General Han Fu-chu. Japanese have $100,000,000 invested in the Chinese province of which he is Governor, famed Shantung which juts out into the Yellow Sea facing Japan like the chin of a placid prize-fighter all ready to be clouted. Last week Japanese bombing planes continued to hurl at Tsinan. Han's capital, not death-dealing bombs but attractive offers encased in protective lengths of bamboo which rattled enticingly as they struck the Gobbles. Japanese businessmen with Shantung investments were busy...
...Annunzio to become an Academician. In the eleven years since then Gabriele and Benito have drawn somewhat closer, d'Annunzio telegraphing to Il Duce when the Dictator was resisting Sanctions: "DO NOT SOIL YOURSELF AT THE FOUL-SMELLING SEWER IN GENEVA STOP REMAIN IMMOVABLE IN CONTROL OF YOUR PLACID HILARITY." Last week d'Annunzio agreed happily to become Ass No. 1, succeeding the late great President of the Academy, Guglielmo Marconi. European females of fashion are still invited by 74-year-old d'Annunzio to visit him in his eccentric villa on Lago di Garda. According...
Last fortnight, when Placid Art Rooney appeared at the opening of the Aqueduct track on Long Island, bookmakers shuddered to hear that in one day he had won $100,000. So far no one has computed how much Rooney has lost, but he is reputed to have $100,000 of his winnings salted safely away in annuities. His smallest, typically lucky wager was $400 he won last fortnight by betting that Tommy Farr would stay 15 rounds against Joe Louis...
...week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake Placid Club will be the scene of the first concert performance of his work, but Louis Gruenberg will not be there. The Club bars Jews not only as members but as guests and amplifies this prohibition in conventional, unmistakably English spelling: "The invariable rule is to make no exception for refined...
...sister of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose financial arrangements with him got into the courts three years ago, when it became known that they had counted-unsuccessfully so far-on selling The Emperor Jones in Hollywood. To Composer Gruenberg and others like him, last week's Lake Placid award pointed up the fact that the radio, not only a channel but a frequent source for prize-money, may increasingly replace rich individuals as a patron of music...