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Within the skeleton walls of the dance hall lay a heap of debris. The roof had crashed upon the dancers. Fires licked over the ruins. Rescue squads fashioned a runway over plaster and planks and bodies to get out the mangled living and dead. Those who had stood at the milk-bar counter had been killed. Dead and injured sprawled in every neighboring doorway...
...pensively: "Johnny's in New York." "Now, Johnny," interrupted Mrs. Williams, "you know what happened to Johnny. Why, he died. You know that." "Oh, that's right," agreed John L. vaguely. He spat wide of the bucket again, glanced at the ceiling, where a square foot of plaster was missing. "I don't remember much about Paper Doll, but I did most of the writing on Dardanella. I gave it to him and said take it and go along with...
...again, when the war is done. In the experience of every man, every day, it is what constitutes peace. A grandmother seated in a doorway, dreaming in retrospect; the flying step of a dancer across a stage, like a festive honeybee; a watery cloud breathing over a hill; cheap plaster of a poor domicile ennobled by light: yes, petty, if you like. But unless we care about such things, French things, domesticity, dancing, landscape - unless we care far more whole heartedly than we did in the last interval of peace - we shall never maintain the tedious vigilance and take...
...city put on a festive air. The streets were filled with officers and men in smart, bemedaled uniforms. The ballet, opera, concerts, plays, movies drew big crowds. Subway stations shone with bright pink paint; fresh plaster concealed the scars on bombed buildings...
With two bamboo and plaster dormitories, classrooms in the bombproof Press Hostel, nine typewriters locally valued at $1,200 each, and 32 cub-reporting students, Chungking's new Graduate School of Journalism of the Central Political Institute got under way last week. The founder and director is polished, ingratiating, 56-year-old Dr. Hollington Tong, pressagent extraordinary to the Chiang Kai-shek regime and biographer of the Gissimo...