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...bombs. They cross the city from (half a line censored) again and again... looking for something, or taking bearings. Now they are over us; now they are away to the north; they are dropping flares and a section of the city is incarmined, whilst above innumerable search light beams thrash the inky sky. Within a few seconds the flares are shot out, and the sky darkens. The search lights follow the planes South.... West... back again in a great triangle, and then more flares drop slowly to earth showing up black buildings against the same blood...
More Woo. Having reached at least the start of an understanding on trade with the U. S., Argentina also prepared last week to thrash out its problems with Great Britain. Owner of vast Argentine holdings, Great Britain is also Argentina's best single customer, hopes to remain so if for no other reason than to keep excess Argentine goods from Nazi Europe. Last week Britain announced that a diplomatic trade mission would tour the South American countries next month under 74-year-old Marquis Willingdon, former Viceroy of India, onetime cricket champion, reputedly the suavest and most able trouble...
...nation still dazed by war, heading toward famine, and sick to death of itself, Petain expounded totalitarian economic theory in the form of three basic principles: 1) organization of professions on a corporative basis within which elements of enterprise can thrash out their difficulties; 2) arbitration by the State of all disputes otherwise incapable of settlement; 3) State control of corporations to adjust national production in accordance with domestic markets and the possibilities of foreign trade...
...first Lucas was wild and mischievous, and Farmer Smith had to thrash him repeatedly for "dirty animal habits in and about the house." As a wild boy, he had eaten crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. He continued to prefer this sort of food to a civilized diet, once devoured 89 prickly pears at a sitting. But he became gradually civilized as he learned to speak and understand English. He showed himself polite, obedient, fond of children, a devoted nurse. In the fields he was a prodigious worker, and Farmer Smith eventually came to regard...
...Grand Opera, most heroes and heroines, ample of brisket and bosom, love and suffer loudly and straightforwardly. When the tenor and soprano get in one of their deplorable, inevitable fixes, they inevitably thrash their arms, square off at high Cs. Not so the hero and heroine of Pelleas et Mélisande, Achille-Claude Debussy's 40-year-old opera (his only completed one) based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Laid in "an unknown land" in a vaguely medieval time, Pelleas is elusive, dreamy, half-said, half-unsaid. Of all her troubles, Mélisande never says anything...