Word: slant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...England going to do "irreparable damage to British prestige" in China? Was a "bazaar girl," as the English ladies expressed it, to be wed in a Christian Cathedral pack-jammed with pagan guests and with Chinese floodlights and Chinese sound cameras perpetuating the scene to be flung before slant-eyed millions in Chinese newsreels...
Great Northern Sea Route Administrator Schmidt will lure the little slant-eyed brothers out of their igloos, clap them into modern houses. The Schmidt settlements will have bathrooms with hot & cold running water, bakeries with bread popping in & out of ovens on conveyers, a radio network pouring out music and propaganda, libraries. "It is impossible," said the Professor, "to convince them of the advantages of settling down at fur-trading posts so long as there are no bathhouses...
SOLOMON, MY SON!?John Erskine? Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Moderately amusing story, given a newsy slant by occasional reference to labor trouble and taxation...
...many other sports, there is no bodily contact in track. As a result Jesse-being a conscious boy-feels that he can extend himself to the utmost in his respective events without causing any friction between his white brethren. Perhaps Tolan, Metcalfe, Hubbard and others also had this mental slant...
Inoffensive Mr. Ruth, cheered up & down Japan by frenzied millions of slant-eyed baseball fans, proved a Peace Envoy par excellence (TIME, Nov. 12). Shocked in Manhattan by the news from Tokyo last week, the Babe said: "I am mighty sorry to hear that anything has happened to Mr. Shoriki and I hope he recovers. He wasn't in the game for money, but because he believed baseball a good thing for Japan. To us he was a fine host, full of energy and hustle...