Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sure enough, embattled farmers rose last week, capturing Hsiangho 40 mi. from Peiping, and besieging Yungching west of Tientsin. When General Shang dispatched two companies of Chinese soldiers to quell the rebels, Japanese officials flew into a rage, thundered that the rebels were in the official "demilitarized zone" set up after the Tangku Truce (TIME, June 5, 1933), and therefore could not be touched by Chinese soldiers who must not enter it. Down sat the two companies of Chinese on the opposite bank of a canal from the demilitarized zone, within sound of the shooting rebels & ronin...
Colonel Thomas Norwood (Stuart Beebe) is a white planter who occasionally passes a night with his black housekeeper, Cora Lewis (Rose McClenndon). Playwright Hughes lays claim to serious consideration by his perceptive presentation of Norwood and the Negroes on his place. No Simon Legree, the wealthy widower seems to treat his dusky employes fairly, is downright generous with Cora and her family. In turn, the Negroes give Norwood that queerly affectionate and somewhat frightened obedience expected and received by Southern whites. Without nosing it as a universal occurrence, Playwright Hughes reveals one dramatic consequence of this interracial situation...
...course... The average New Yorker does not go to the theatre in exactly the same state of mind as the average London citizen. The former has a weakness for plays that tighten and then jangle his nerves. Our London audiences like to be gently moved, to melt into the rose-tinted twilight of the Haymarket or Wyndham's, because of some fairy-tale nonsense." Thus putting his finger on the reason many an English play fails in New York, British Playwright Priestley proceeded to bring forth a typical one, about a shopworn actress who returns to her old home. Nervous...
Alabama's Rose Bowl champions got started when Center Kay Francis intercepted a pass, rallied to spoil Georgia's undefeated record...
...third through the entire Oregon team. The U. C. L. A. rooting section, which had spent the half-time making card-formation pictures of a bear eating a duck, went home feeling sure that nothing in the rest of their schedule will keep the team out of the Rose Bowl if they can beat California this week. U. C. L. A. 33, Oregon...