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Last week the eccentric Minister of Education was out inspecting elementary schools, flew into a tantrum on discovering that many Japanese moppets now refer to their parents as papa and mama, even as pop and mom. Aghast at this latest result of U. S. cinema invasion of the Orient,* the Lloyd George of the East rushed back to Tokyo, decreed from his Ministry of Education that on school premises Japanese children must hereafter "refer to their parents with proper respect" as O-to-san (Honorable Father) and O-ka-san (Honorable Mother...
...Paul in a pair of white linen knickerbockers with $5 in cash. Landing in Hamburg at the height of the inflation, he changed his $5 for 115,000 marks, toured Germany on it, returned to the U. S. on the same ship and left in a tantrum when his discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later he went abroad again, acquired a French aviation pilot's license, returned to train at Roosevelt Field. In 1933 Rob ert Gordon Switz married a quiet intelligent Vassar girl named Marjorie Tilley. Soon they...
...features of the Swahili Africans. He went up to the darky and began jabbering away in Swahili, and in a couple of seconds the Redcap was down bumping his head on the floor and thrashing his arms about. It took the anthropologist two or three minutes to stop the tantrum, which he did by switching to English. It came out that the Harvard man had been in the Redcap's home town; knew some of his cousins...
...Tantrum. Nearly everyone will recall the generously constructed Roberta Arnold of The First Year and Chicken Feed and her voice that twangs like a guitar. She is an anomalously successful actress, having neither beauty, restraint nor reverence for the canons of her craft. Yet she is aggressively effective, recklessly individual. She is Roberta Arnold. You either like her or you do not. Most people...
Francois Descamps, manager of Pugilist Carpentier: "At Michigan City, Ind., I discovered that two ringside tickets for the Carpentier-Gibbons fight (see Page 27) had been stolen from my pocket. Reports said that 'the excitable little Frenchman . . . went off in a tantrum,' that Frank Parker, fight promoter, escorted me to a quiet corner, learned of the disaster, restored quiet by offering two of his own ringside seats...