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...only one day's supply of water left. On Christmas military authorities told the Government that no further effective resistance could be offered with the 6,000 exhausted troops still fighting. In the afternoon Sir Mark crossed the blue strait to the mainland, met the Japanese in the swank Peninsula Hotel, where he surrendered and remained prisoner under guard...
Henri Baels entertained lavishly, sent his family to the swank seaside resort Le Zoute, on the Belgian-Dutch border. Leopold, now King and widowed, often went down to Le Zoute to golf. When he was reported on the course, Marie-Lelia and her sisters would slick up, take a bag of clubs and skip off to have a round of golf. Leopold soon became conscious of witty Marie-Lelia. He enjoyed her company, chatted with her when he could. And he never forgot...
Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, exposing her social consciousness, went to make a speech, but got lost on Long Island. Outside the swank Rubinstein store in Manhattan, picketers marched, chanting...
...Brussels Ambassador Kurusu was suspected of being as anti-Axis as his American wife, who was Alice Little of Chicago. He was a member of the swank Circle Gaulois, to which no German belongs. In Berlin it was Ambassador Kurusu's duty to sign Japan's Axis Pact...
Last year theaters closed at seven, so that bomb-wary patrons might hurry to inadequate shelters. Taxi drivers received half-crown tips for venturing out in the blitz. Patrons in bathrobes slumped about the lounges of swank hotels. Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast. The Zoo's lone emu shuddered when the ack-acks whammed...