Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballyhoo of 1932. "As clean and wholesome as the magazine!" promises Comedian Bob Hope from an upper box labeled "Complaint Department" a moment before Ballyhoo's many-hued curtain goes up. The revue (written by Ballyhoo magazine's editor, Norman Anthony) keeps its leering promise. Able Comedian Willie Howard struggles home on a street car with the most essential fixture for his bathroom; with Brother Eugene he tries to make a papier-mâché cow "give"; on a Columbus Circle soap box he makes a Communist speech: "Rewolt! Our cup of beeterness ees feeled...
...Allies of territories seized during the War and now administered as mandates by Great Britain. France and Japan. . . . The day is not far off when Germany will also demand restoration of territories seized from her on the Continent" (Alsace-Lorraine, the Polish Corridor, parts of Upper Silesia, Eupen & Malmedy, Danzig, the Saar. etc., etc.). Chancellor von Papen wrote in Der Saar Frennd last week: "The Saar District is German and wants to remain German. . . .* Growing knowledge of the real sentiments of the Saar population leads me to hope-without indulging in illusions -that the arbitrarily created problem of the Saar...
Most jade comes from upper Burma and southeastern Turkestan. In the western hemisphere it is found in its natural state only in Alaska. Of cut jade five very fine specimens have been found in Mexico. One is now in Berlin, another in Stuttgart, a third in the National Museum of Mexico. A fourth is at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. It is a light green jadeite axe-head, a foot long, with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years...
...hotel and back again. Soon correspondents thought they knew what Chiang Kai-shek was planning. In the past 50 years China has experimented with every sort of government known to the western world: absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, republicanism, communism, military dictatorship. With a Communist movement steadily growing in the upper Yangtze Valley (TIME, Aug. 15), the Nationalist government must do something about internal as well as external affairs. An opposite of Communism which China has not tried is Fascism, and last week Chiang Kai-shek was reported to be organizing a Chinese Fascismo with the 3,000 cadets...
...reclosed from the inside, even if opened during flight. Instead of being painted half white, half black, like the old gondola, the new one is all white enamel. Last year the black half had been painted to attract heat, for fear the aeronauts would suffer from cold in the upper atmosphere. Instead they suffered intense heat and thirst...