Word: white
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...19th Century and the first two decades of the 20th, China lived on hopes that the white men would fall to fighting each other and leave her alone. They fought in 1914-18 and millions of them were fighting again last week; but still China was the loser. Those white men who had been helping her a little to fend off other yellow men's attacks were now too busy even to do that. By innocence, weakness, timidity, China had got herself in for what promised to be a furious autumn campaign. Last week the campaign began. The theatre...
...Chopin wrote the score for Poland's agony (see p. 25"), Walt Disney supplied a marching song for the Western Front. British Tommies reworded the work carol of the Seven Dwarfs in Snow White and, as they moved toward their posts in the Maginot Line last week, sang: "Heigh-ho, heigh...
Last week observers had difficulty recognizing the Queen Mary, though Britain's big luxury liner lay in plain sight next the Normandie at her dock in Manhattan's North River. Her superstructure, more spotlessly white than ever, seemed to be suspended over a smudgy grey cloud that blended with wharves and water. The lower part of the ship had all but disappeared under a coat of grey paint. Day or two later the white superstructure almost disappeared too. The Queen Mary was not slapping on war paint (battleship grey is several tones bluer and less muddy...
...Council Against Intolerance in America (cochairmen: William Allen White, George Gordon Battle, W. Warren Barbour) sent to the nation's high schools a manual called An American Answer to Intolerance, instructing teachers how to immunize pupils against propaganda, teach them not to hate aliens, Jews or Germans (by teaching them to recognize their own prejudices, propagandists' tricks...
...although Author Huxley views the natives' misfortunes with sympathy, her sympathy with the whites makes Red Strangers a tragi-comedy rather than a tragedy. The final scene (after two generations of British rule): A young Kikuyu farmer takes his first ride in a plane, trudges boastfully home, pleased with himself and the white bwana, determined to name his forthcoming child Aeroplane...