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Grandfather with an East Side Background, a thin-faced, sallow figure with resentful eyes, in a black Sunday suit and derby, angled against a sad line of shops, a huckster, a synagogue...
...Chinese-Soviet non-intervention treaty signed fortnight ago contained a great deal more than appeared on the surface. From Russian Turkestan to Inner Mongolia (with direct connection to Moscow) a Soviet air line was reported suddenly established last week. Among the first passengers is expected none other than sallow Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, whose "kidnapping" of Chiang Kai-shek was one of the preliminary steps to last week's war. Naming places, Japan charged that 72 of 210 Russian military planes had been delivered to Nationalist China through Inner Mongolia last week, hinted that Russian aviators might come...
...which were reinforced from Manila by week's end; 3) British Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little commanding Britain's China Squadron; 4) nine hundred fifty British regulars, and a battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers hastily ferried over from Hong Kong; 5) about 1,000 small sallow French Indo-Chinese and Annamese soldiers; 6) small detachment of Italian Fascists; 7) the Shanghai Volunteer Corps, a brigade of mixed infantry and cavalry consisting principally of British and U. S. clerks and White Russian emigres...
...gentleman-at-large" had driven away from Buckingham Palace, another motor had passed him on the Mall going in the opposite direction. Sitting in it ramrod-stiff was hawk-nosed, sallow-skinned Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain...
...sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like, such as Norah, Rosamund's older sister: "Sallow and strenuous and masterful, given to sudden splurges of coarse laughter, and concealing beneath her thick white skin surges of strongly scented sex." But wistfulness predominates: "How few books were utterly inevitable, perhaps half a score in the course of a century. This business of living upon books ! There...