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Punctually the curtain rang up. Japanese and Chinese officials charged each other with having violated the four-hour truce in various ways. As the shells began to scream again, as the roar of bombing planes played its soft prelude to the thunder of bombs, act II began, and the first actor to speak was Rear-Admiral Toma Uematsu. commander of the Japanese naval landing forces...
...they finished dinner. Next morning, with a maid and a typist as the only witnesses, they were secretly married. Lord Furness was out in the bush hunting lions. To break the news to her father, Mrs. Rattray dispatched an airplane to his safari. Last week Lord Furness's wrathful roar resounded through the veldt...
...babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their tails and chewing their nocturnal cuds. Suddenly Farmer Lentz heard a mighty roar. Running outside he discovered that his barn had been bombed, was afire. Before he and his hands could untangle the wire with which the bombers had sealed the door, Farmer Lentz's barn, three horses and 43 cows were a blazing pyre in the night. Two weeks before...
...William Blank for the Vice-Presidency; 6) the steady, if somewhat reduced, flow of cash into the parties' respective campaign chests; 7) the noisy advancement of Senatorial candidacies in 32 or more States, of Congressional candidacies in all 48; 8) the creation of nation-wide issues amidst the pulsing roar of partisan oratory; 9) the march of some 37,000,000 citizens on Nov. 8 to the polls to elect the 32nd President of the U. S. and the 73rd Congress...
...though he were a lamp, a strong light. He was, at once, capable of a passionate cursing and a low-voiced impressive tranquillity of confidence. 'Damn you, sir,' he said to an officer who came galloping up, crying out some bad news above the roar of battle, 'don't yell at me!' In such moments of intensity he often leaned forward over his horse's neck and spoke with the utmost softness...