Word: reeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, Ore., Japanese girls strutted about the campus of Reed College, chuckling over a great private joke. As delegates to the second annual Japan-U. S. Student Conference, they had been asked to appear in kimonos. Since most of them wear Western dresses at home, they had spent a good part of their trip across the Pacific learning, for the first time in their lives, to tie the big, brocaded sashes which traditionally girdle Japanese kimonos...
...first day of the conference 46 Japanese and 76 U. S. and Canadian students met in the Reed College chapel, squirmed in the pews while the speakers talked of nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U. S.-Japanese war inevitable." Glad when the assembly was over, the Japanese delegates wanted first to see the unemployed. Back on the campus they settled down to talk of foreign trade, Manchuria, Communism, dictatorship, missionaries...
...accentuated by powdered temples, spectacles, and a polite, nostalgic way of asking for a kiss. Miss Sidney first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed, who symbolizes Princetonian youth. Accent on youth suffers less than most light pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed, not recognizing Marshall as his rival in love, begs...
...ORREL P. REED...
...Jordan; R. W. Kirk; C. K. C. Lawrence; R. S. Levy; C. S. McVeigh, Jr.; Malcolm McVickar; D. D. Malcolm; W. E. Mayne; C. W. Morse; R. F. Mozley; Thomas Newbold; W. L. Pettingell; C. F. Poole; G. R. Poor; D. L. Putnam; L. K. Rainsford; S. P. Reed, Jr.; Hyman Rudnick; Fitzwilliam Sargent, 3rd.; Richard Sears; E. W. Sinnott, Jr.; Albert Stickney, Jr.; H. L. Stowell; G. F. Stubbs, Jr.; J. W. Suter; T. J. Taylor; R. L. Thayer; W. N. Trenerry; A. S. Trueblood; J. F. Tynan; F. J. Ulman; J. W. Valentine; T. S. Watson...