Word: returned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aided and embarrassed by friends who showed all Beaverbrook's excitement about his return to the land of the little wooden shoes, Lockhart soon found that spectators were almost more interested in his reunion with Amai than he was. He put it off as long as possible, fearing to find Amai a fat, betel-nut-chewing grandmother. He lingered in Singapore, speculated about the British Empire and colonial service, the future of the East, revolution and the consequences of the cinema lowering white prestige before the yellow races. When at last he met Amai, with his friends waiting nearby...
...RETURN TO MALAYA-R. H. Bruce Lockhart-Putnam...
...affair involving debts and dissipations in the Balkans, that left him looking dolefully on the modern world and suffering from an understandable fatigue. Readers of those two books who have come to expect from Bruce Lockhart well-bred accounts of international intrigue are likely to be disappointed with Return to Malaya. It is a record of his visit, with funds that the success of British Agent provided, to the Eastern Islands where he had spent three years as a young...
...inclusion of Cornell in next year's schedule and particularly the "shooting expedition" of the seven directors of the Athletic Associations concerned are happy augeries for the future. The hunters should return with the only conceivable alternative to President Conant's program for endowing athletics in their game bag--a well formulated plan to revive the languishing spirit of amateurism...
...chief recommendation for a remission of this bad-tempered bickering is the necessity for England to return her attention to the critical condition of matters international. This Simpson affair has interrupted a far more important matter, the good work of keeping England out of the general imbroglio. The rearming has continued, but that alone is scarcely calculated to relieve the tension. France, refusing to pass judgment on the matriminial spat, has at the same time become quite uneasy over the state of the alliance. England must promptly forget her relatively piffling human interest story, and turn to things that...