Word: rosalinda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manila's Torres High School Refugee Camp one day last week, eleven-year-old Rosalinda Andoy washed her face and hands carefully, combed her straight black hair with a part on the side, put on her best pink dress. Then she was taken across the hot, wrecked city to the high-ceMnged ballroom where Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita was on trial for war crimes committed by his troops. She sat gravely in the witness chair, tried to tilt her dangling feet to keep her sandals from falling off, and told why she was an orphan...
...Rosalinda talked in Tagalog, and an interpreter explained what she was saying...
...Japs came into the cathedral too; they took her father to Fort Santiago, and killed him. They herded Rosalinda and her mother and other women & children into a nearby church, lobbed grenades into their midst, then lunged in with their bayonets. Her mother was hit by a grenade, and the little girl was stabbed 38 times...
...music proves the biggest disappointment. Emmerick Kalman's score cannot make up its mind whether it is trying to imitate Strauss's "Rosalinda" or the Rodgers technique. It falls somewhere in the middle. However, two or three songs are likely candidates for popular favor, "Sigh by Night," "One Last Love Song," and "Treat a Woman Like a Drum...
...were broadcasting their own warnings of the targets they were about to attack was apparently unfounded-perhaps German propaganda to make raiders think their operational plans are leaking out, and that they may fly into a Luftwaffe trap. † A last-season New York hit in an English version. Rosalinda...