Word: puppetized
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...commoners" who have the dough and can read without moving their lips, also, for safety's sake, to an occasional pale pink radical with an orthodox Imperial slant to his ideas. The country's masses, politically ignorant and acquiescent because they are continually mesmerized by a puppet press masquerading as democratic, have yet to realize that they are on the outside looking in. Apart from occasional darts to the Left, dragging a red herring, and aside from plenty of cockney and dialectal comedy, which is really a "front," the British Broadcasting Corp. is essentially Gad-Sir-the-Empire...
...London the British Government formally announced that not only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...
...Wangs were fussing in China last week-one who wanted to be a puppet and one who was and didn't want...
...blockade Tientsin's foreign Concessions. Last April 9, Cheng Shi-kang, manager of the Japanese-controlled Tientsin customs, was shot while watching others shot in the film Gunga Din. Mr. Cheng was neither the first nor the last Japanese hireling to be assassinated, but he was no ordinary puppet. Most of the decrepit Chinese who have sold out to the enemy command little affection and no respect, have no influence even with the Japanese who use them. But Puppet Cheng was shrewd, forceful, humorous; Chinese loved him, foreigners respected him, and his employers listened to his advice. Losing such...
Laguna's flag-bedecked festival site last week was a fenced-in, eucalyptus-shaded vacant lot two blocks from the sea. Under a big top near the puppet-show tent such bright California lights as Millard Sheets, William Wendt, William Griffith, Frank Cuprien, Ruth Peabody hung their pictures; the works of lesser lights were displayed in sideshow booths forming an open square. In one booth free oils and modeling clay tempted visitors to test their talent. In another a fortune teller revealed if they had any to test...