Word: rices
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...incarcerated. Such joy reigned in Tokyo's Central Police Station that a banquet to Detective Tokuda was arranged. A long table was set up in the station house. Detective Tokuda, in a handsome grey kimono, sat at the head while smiling policemen and bespectacled detectives sat down to rice, pineapple and many a bottle of strong Japanese beer. Even the stern, shaven-headed Captain of Police condescended to drink a foaming glass or two to honor his subordinate...
Said he: "I would like to produce all the plays of Shakespeare in America. Why doesn't some American magnate try some thing different - Hamlet with Chaplin, for instance, accompanied by good jazz music." Elmer L. Rice, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning play Street Scene, said last week: "After 15 years in the theatre I am convinced that nobody knows anything about it. This play . . . was turned down by all the prominent New York producers who told me it wasn't a play. ... I never have followed rules or technique." Thomas Tunney, Manhattan detective, brother of retired fisticuffer...
...capital punishment in China. It is merely the long, bright, classic sword of the headsman that has been abolished-an antiquated relic deemed unworthy of modern, mechanistic Nationalist China. A Chinese execution is always something of a local holiday. The victim is allowed to drink his fill of rice wine until blissfully intoxicated. At the execution grounds, he kneels down, head thrust forward. Under the old regime it was the executioner's duty to take a two-handed, heavy-bladed sword, and from a comfortable stance remove the prisoner's head with one well-timed full swing...
...Elmer Rice, for the best play (Street Scene, reviewed in TIME, Jan. 21) received...
...local Academy this afternoon. As the Harvard team has defeated Andover, 7 to 2, it should have little trouble with the rival academy. The Seconds line-up is Ruhl, No. 1; Greene, No. 2; Cross, No. 3; Parker, No. 4; Gilman, No. 5; Bronstein, No. 6; with A. H. Rice '31 as alternate...