Word: wasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies." To a small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment. Then a roar from the supercharged Wasp motor, a streak down the field, and the Winnie Mae's navigating lights were blinking a "goodbye" from the North...
...just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...
Thus last week spoke shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kai-shek to troops at his capital, Nanking. Shrilly he continued...
...that art, Comrade Michael Borodin, whom Dr. Sun Yat Sen borrowed from Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...
...Chen stood a fat-faced younger man named Sun Fo who stands for "Prestige." He is the son of "the Father of the Chinese Republic,'' the late, great Dr. Sun Yatsen. Up to a few weeks ago Sun Fo was Minister of Railways in the Government of wasp-waisted President Chiang, his stepuncle...