Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some artillery, but that China depended for her small arms, machine guns and ammunition mainly on what she was able to buy in Europe. Most of this landed at British Hong Kong, was shipped via the Canton-Hankow railway, both ends of which are now in Japanese hands. The rest came via French Indo-China, and Tokyo last week demanded that Paris stop that (see below...
...mysteriously disappeared in transit from a Boston department store (where it had been on exhibition). Then, just as he was blasting the stiff-collared Bostonians with an explosion of Grand Banks invective, he was told that the race committee was unable (because of feeble public response) to raise the rest of the $10,000 expense money promised him. Hopping mad, Captain Walters, who had already received $4,000 from the committee, demanded that they produce the rest "immediately or else-." So saying, he stalked out of the room, vowing never to bring his Bluenose down to the U. S. again...
Worried well-wishers heard that one member of the Stuart clan was at a country dance when rivals appeared, got his gun and danced the rest of the night without turning his back on the crowd. They believed Jesse to be in imminent danger. But they principally feared the pugnacious Stuart inheritance, which may wreck the career of one of the most promising young U. S. poets...
...Democrats' capture of the State two years ago. So it was of major interest when important Democratic Publisher Vann, who pictures himself as the guiding mind for most of those votes, last week exhorted all Pennsylvania Negroes to vote for Judge James for Governor and ignore the rest of both tickets...
...their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling as they do so. Throughout the rest of the picture they amuse themselves by a sleepy race on rocking horses, frightening five cocker spaniel puppies and misbehaving at the tea table. To an outsider the only plausible excuse for the Dionnes' attitude is that they feel themselves underpaid. For their first picture they got only...