Word: proof
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...named the Chinese Foreign Minister Dr. Lo Wen-kan. Then he went to see Dr. Lo. To all this the Japanese Foreign Office remained lukewarm. It announced the Japanese drive might go "right down to Canton" some 1,200 miles south of Tientsin. Before it began dickering it wanted proof that China was "serious" about wanting to dicker. Meanwhile in the evacuated territory north of Tientsin the Chinese soldiers strutted like heroes for their brief moment.* Scamp Shot. A hint of Japan's real intentions in China exploded last week in Peiping's Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits...
...nightmare of a childhood tragedy. At outs with his wife for the past six months, he has suspected her and his best friend of being more than friendly. Acting on a candid letter from another friend, Gather is cutting short a (rip to Manhattan, hoping and fearing to find proof of his suspicions on his unexpected arrival home. Everything turns out just as he thought it would; he finds that foreknowledge makes the fact no easier. As he took the precaution of coming home drunk, he acts the part of injured husband with more malice than dignity. (An interlude...
...when his staff assembles at his desk to dispatch departmental business before going home. Dr. Moley lives with Mr. Mullen at the Carlton Hotel, three squares from his office. He drives a sleek new Packard roadster. He takes no exercise, plays no golf, says: "I know of no scientific proof that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." Mrs. Moley and the twins have been in Santa Barbara since September, will probably remain there until au- tumn. Dr. Moley likes to exhibit to callers his sons' watercolors and drawings from California. Their photograph, in identical bathing...
...chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services in keeping the sons of prominent families in college and the plight of the puritanical "sub-deb" is lamented...
Visitors at the Chicago's World's Fair this June will scarcely be able to miss one exhibit in the Hall of Science. Soldiers in Colonial uniforms will guard a case 18 in. square and 3 ft. high. The case will be made of bullet-proof steel. Its top will be made of plunder-proof, non-shatterable glass. It will be bolted to the concrete floor and weighted down with iron. A combination safe lock will guard its contents. Peering through the non-shatterable glass the sight-seer will see, fastened to a silver rod, George Washington...