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...Evacuation involved destroying equipment and installations. In some cases the Japs did a good job. Three midget submarines, which long ago had been taken out of the ocean into pens, had their bellies blown out. Many containers of food had been jabbed with bayonets and stank from spoilage...
...crowds roared, Mickey Sullivan dribbled over his chin, the publicity men rubbed their hands, and the show stank. O.K., O.K., So you never saw a Poon-pic. Well, there were, and nobody that wasn't anybody ever tried to horn in. We've always worked through nice people, well, like Ann Sheridan, or Marjorie Woodworth...
...general charges, contained in letters to friend & foe, were that New York jurists, banks, grand juries, the Bar, stank. Some notable Knightisms...
...Cabo de Buena Esperanza was no improvement over the Alsina. The Cabo ships are called "whited sepulchers" in South America, a reference to the smart white paint of their top sides and the filth, crowding, misery and disease inside their hulls. The whole ship stank, the food was nauseous, the ship's hospital used dirty newspapers for sheets. On the slow voyage across the Atlantic two more refugees died...
Conquest of a Province. For a generation before the war Szechwan, richest, largest, most populous province of China, lived by itself. Warlords dominated it. They lived in great palaces equipped with foreign-style, pink, green and lavender-tiled bathrooms pleasing to their many concubines. The streets of their cities stank with opium. Szechwan was a pus-pocket in the nation from which poison seeped through all China. While Chiang built a modern central Government in the lower Yangtze Valley, the Szechwanese went their way almost untouched...