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...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...
Gilbert, according to his chaperon, William A. Ryan '40, halls from Texas, where he used to romp around and he poisonous. Since then he has had his poison machinery, fangs and all, extracted...
Yale and Harvard athletic rivalries will be forgotten, patched up, and discarded today when Eli and Crimson coaches gather for their annual get-together and romp...
London weather should be nice. Last week Bertie's real birthday was celebrated in Buckingham Palace. The King was 42 and to the party came 90 British children to romp with His Majesty's daughters. Princess Elizabeth & Princess Margaret Rose. There were tea & cakes in the Royal Picture Gallery and a performance by the Scottish Children's Theatre-which consists of six coy adults who recite Mother Goose rhymes in costume. No. 1 guest moppet was H. R. H. Prince Edward, two-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and 5th in line...
With Cosi fan tutte ("They all do it") as its opener, the Guild showed that, though it could not do much for the vocal side of opera, it could, theatrically, provide as agreeable a romp as anything that had been sung on a Manhattan stage in years. Viennese Theo Otto's frivolous set and gay 18th-Century costumes-worn by opera singers who for once looked perfectly at home in them-made a completely plausible background for Mozart's tale of deception which proves that all women are fickle...