Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even admitted that, had not forced selling depressed the value of Jewish property and securities, the sums realized would probably have totaled the $400,000,000 originally demanded. Jews were informed last week that they must now "make up the difference for lost values," and Count Krosigk prepared to strip the Jewish community of about five per cent more of its wealth...
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY - W. Somerset Maugham - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Melodrama within melodrama, made credible by Maugham's professional slickness, Christmas Holiday describes the shattering Paris holiday of a safe-&-sane young Englishman. Shatterers are a strip-tease pick up, who tells him about her marriage to a man who murdered for sport; a boyhood friend who is grooming himself to head the OGPU of a future Communist England...
...many people, the art of the comic-strip may seem a bit too close to the odor of the breakfast table to be worth serious consideration. The reader who finds a vicarious thrill in pouncing upon "Terry and the Pirates" each morning is apt to overlook the genuine skill of the artist, Milt Caniff, in favor of a few well-turned curves on the body of the Dragon Lady. Each section of Canift's daily feature contains a carefully planned composition, both in regard to figure placement and value rendition. His work is characterized by the decisive manner in which...
Willys, licking its chops over an impending $2,500,000 RFC loan, has slicked up its two series (Speedway and De Luxe) this year with deep-skirted front fenders, a beltline chrome strip from front to back. All by itself in the ultra-low field, Willys has dropped its prices 12% to $495 to $620. Improvements: New-type soft springs with rubber-lined clips, counterweight crankshaft, automatic carburetor...
...Chinese answer to this drive was a surprise attack on the flimsy Japanese garrison which has patrolled the 22-mile strip of land adjacent to Hong Kong since a landing party seized it in mid-August. The attack had a temporary success, but it was only a diversion. Furthermore, it was a diversion which (along with the news that Britain was removing five gunboats from China waters because of "more pressing needs" elsewhere) only served to remind the Japanese that right now might be a sweet time to take Hong Kong...