Word: vies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Murger's novel Scenes de la Vie...
...difficulties. They resent the fact that many Chinese have marked them as fall guys. Pickpockets and petty thieves prey on them. More ostensibly respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
...scroll, but his voice held firm as he read: "History will show the evils from which I saved France.... Each day, with a dagger at my throat, I had to battle the demands of the enemy. ... I surrendered nothing essential. . . . My actions sustained France. I assured France of la vie et le pain (life and bread). ... I prepared the road to liberation...
VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN HIND-Edmund Gilllgan-Scribner ($2.50). Two rival captains on the same ship vie for fish and the girl they love amid well depicted seascapes. Better than average adventure-romance...
...successes in a radio log which lists all network song performances of the night before. After dinner, they catnap in a newsreel theater until the nightspots open. The pluggers spend an hour or so in each of the most popular spots, strategically seated at tables where they can vie with a dozen competitors for the eye and ear of influential bandleaders...