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...tour through English factory towns is an august, frock-coated, slant-eyed Trade Delegation from the rich Chinese province of Manchuria. Last week while visiting the extensive Longbridge Works at Birmingham, where Sir Herbert Austin turns out his trig, seven h. p. "Baby Austins" in thousands, Chairman T. Y. Wang of the Delegation said...
...simple, believing rustic was dragged away, the "Son of Heaven" looked down compassionately through spectacles, from his great Louis XIV State Coach. Above the gorgeous vehicle a golden phoenix perched with wings spread-symbol of divine and inextinguishable Radiance. If the little slant-eyed man in spectacles really believes that he can talk with his Divine Ancestress Amaterasu-0-Mikami-as he is supposed to do several times a year-the farmer's plea must have stirred in His Majesty strange emotions...
...large feet Marshal Feng stands a full,' massive six feet tall. He towered Gargantuanly, last week, during his address to slender, slant-eyed students of both sexes at the New Nationalist University in Nanking. The students barkened breathlessly, not only because Feng is China's heroic Daniel Boone, but because he is also War Minister of the new Chinese Nationalist State and moreover absolute master of a private and pioneering army of 150,000 men (TIME...
Richard Arlen and the slant-eyed Lilyan Tashman are accessories to the fact in this particular piece of mayhem...
Giant Killer is eminently good reading for its new slant on a familiar story, and for its dramatic elaboration of scrimmages in love...