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...that the docile Bamangwato had thumbed their noses at a creature so Godlike as the Great White Queen's commissioner. Batho marched off, his upper lip aquiver. He issued an order: "No more Kgotlas." The Bamangwato sat back guzzling Kaffir beer (a native brew made of yeast, marmalade, syrup and raisins) and took no notice. But when Batho sent a platoon...
...last weeks of his life go by, the passionate questions become more & more trivial ("Is barley syrup made from barley?"), the obsessive topics more & more Promethean and miserable ("The cowards, to keep an unarmed man imprisoned upon a rock!"). The books and encyclopedias on his tables are replaced by syringes and bowls, bottles of orange-flower water, gentian, licorice, quinine and calomel. The doctors hover around the bed, urging this & that on the dying dictator, until he shouts: "Shut up, you bore me!'' The conversation is of little else but the sickroom, the Emperor turning and twisting...
Despite its Irishness, Three Wishes is raspberry syrup without a drop of poteen. John Raitt sings handsomely, but Ralph Blane's tunes seldom seem hummablel without also seeming familiar. There are nice George Jenkins sets and Miles White costumes, and there is at least one thoroughly gay dance number. If wishes were horses, the show might go at a fast enough clip to be fun; as it is, it just ambles from one mild scene to another...
...Lungyen King. At his Unsurpassed Prosperity Shop at the corner of Canton and Fukien Roads, Chang had long sold the best dragon's-eyes or lungyen nuts (something like lichees) in the city, together with two patent medicines of his own invention: Ginseng Lung-yen Tonic Syrup and another lungyen tonic for menstrual troubles. Through wars, revolutions and even the Japanese occupation, Chang had prospered, planting his profits in Shanghai real estate and running his business on traditionally paternalistic lines. His seven employees had all been with him since their teens, learning the business thoroughly. After proper education...
Doctors who invited Oklahoma's Governor Johnston Murray (son of ex-Governor "Alfalfa Bill" Murray) to address the Tulsa County Medical Society last week expected the usual soothing syrup about the responsibilities of their profession. They found themselves under bitter attack...