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Just as there is something quite rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety
...initial mistake, when he conceived the idea of a personal newspaper organ, of choosing Northerners to pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where I had worked with Suter. Even my Washington accent was too mildly Southern to fit in well in Nashville. Those were still the Damned Yankee days...
Canton's head man, Marshal Chen Chi-tang, seized the moment to insult Nanking and Generalissimo Chiang: "The Southeast will never witness a duplication of the spectacle of more than 100,000 Chinese soldiers evacuating an immense area without firing a shot in obedience to demands of the heads of the Japanese Army. . . . If Nanking orders the Southeast to agree to any unreasonable Japanese demands, we would refuse to obey and would stand up and tight for China's rights...
...charge for remaining "loyal" to the Nanking Government thrifty General Chen Chi-tang has demanded and received more than $3,000,000 in the past three months. Flush with cash, General Chen turned his thoughts last week to tender young monkeys, the kind served temptingly in Canton restaurants as a spécialité de la maison, which tastes not unlike chicken...
Somewhere we have read of the number of books that make the depression less trying, but Elmer K. Ferris has added one that should not be counted in with the regular run of them. Who Says Old! (Sears) has a cheeriness, a salutary tang that is particularly appropriate to the time of Yale logs and winter evens. If you wish to have a little excitement to touch off your evening's reading of the heavier volumes, a few hours will be entertainingly spent with Congo Jake in the winds of Africa. A. C. Collondon (Clande Kendall, $2.75) takes you through...