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...Cabinet members are men who as humble undersecretaries did the Princes' work. Quite unheard of outside Siam are Premier & Finance Minister Monophkarana; Foreign Minister Phya Srivisar Vacha; Defense Minister Prasertsong Coram; Minister of Interior Phya Chasaenyapati...
...deepest regret we beg to inform you that, when on February 23 at about 3 p. m., six piratic airplanes from the invading Japanese Navy were circling over Soochow, dropping bombs on an entirely unarmed and innocent civilian population, destroying lives and property alike in a wanton fashion unheard, of before, your heroic son Robert Short, flying a Boeing plane, engaged in a fight with the above planes, and after a 10-minute machine gun fire, he was shot and nose-dived to death...
...theatre. Pathos and tragedy were greeted with titters from parts of the house; the climax of the drama was hailed with gleeful delight from the gallery, where, it must be assumed, Boston's maids were taking their Thursday night off. An Irish brogue on the stage, uttering remarks not unheard of before in the theatre, was, to many in the audience, a matter for laughing, and laugh they...
...would be too dull for us." Walt Whitman he calls a caution, but is forced to admit, "Not until introverts no longer read and write shall we be rid of the Steer that lived on Leaves of Grass." In spite of all, Author Pitkin remains incorrigibly optimistic. With not unheard-of scientific naivete he hopes to save mankind by mechanization of many of man's functions. In his age of Super-Sense, "A hay fever sufferer will . . . have a pocket sniffer which will enable him to detect in the summer breeze the April...
...roomful of typists pecking out a tap dance rhythm in time to orchestral accompaniment. Artificial as this sort of thing is, it is one of the notable features of the film. Characters walk in time to the music, doors open and close in strict tempo, orchestral voices imitate unheard sounds and expressive gestures on the screen...