Word: singsonging
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...course sympathizers will bleat their Communist-taught singsong about "labor-haters" in order to keep Labor's "sacred cow" status but they're overplaying their hands now and the public will back the corrective measures...
...concoct his own jokes. Most of them depend on gagmen for their wit. Allen writes much of his show himself, decisively edits the contributions of his two assistant scripteurs. Practically unchanged this season will be the formula that carried his program along on NBC. In his dry, unhappy, singsong drawl, Allen will still handle 60% of the dialogue, manage, between musical pauses, to give his own news of the week, interview unexpected guests, preside over the dramatic doings of the Mighty Allen Art Players. For his famed ad libs a few minutes will be reserved as usual on each...
...would bring bombs, the Chinese Government undertook systematic evacuation of Chungking's population, estimated then at over 750,000. Police circulated through the city, first warning residents without domicile permits (issued after last May's terrible raids) to leave town, then sealing their houses. Cinemas, singsong halls, western-style restaurants were ordered closed. Schools and unessential Government bureaus were to be evacuated. The aim: a population reduced to 100,000. Last week's population...
...fatefully to lift last week. In Chungking squads of police, under stern orders from Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, worked down street after street driving out of Chungking and into the suburbs thousands of Chinese whom they hoped thus to save from the expected bombs. Many Chinese merchants, restaurant keepers and singsong-house proprietors vigorously protested that they were doing a fine business in Chungking, preferred to stay and chance the bombs. Shushing them, the Generalissimo's police boarded up their premises, permitted to remain in Chungking only citizens with papers certifying their presence in the capital to be "indispensable...
...concubines, servants, friends and enemies as well. What makes Author Lin's "little talk" coherent is the central position of the Yao family. Through their connections with the Tseng and New families, with honest and corrupt officials, big business, scholars, intellectuals, black sheep, third-generation revolutionists, ruined Mandarins, singsong girls, peasants, the Yao family get an extraordinarily diverse view of the revolutionary history of their time...