Word: wo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senso wa zuibun aku-eikyo wo atae-ta," said many a Japanese citizen in private last week. The sentence had to be said in private because it was a grave admission: "The war hits us pretty heavily." The Japanese have come to realize all too well that their adventure in China is now primarily a currency war rather than an orthodox military engagement. Last week they began to take official notice of the fact that in the currency war, China has both natural advantages and allies with cash, while Japan has neither...
Beethoven: Abscheulicher, Wo Eilst Du Hin? from Fidelio (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Kirsten Flagstad; Victor). A masterpiece of sound-reproduction. But Wagnerian Soprano Flagstad's Beethoven is less extraordinary than her Wagner...
...waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small calibre Japanese guns began to pepper the British gunboats Ladybird and Bee, the British river steamers Sui-Wo and Butterfield...
...trays, fashion sketches, electrical equipment, straw hats, parchment lamp shades, gingham dresses. Demonstration classes in French, stenography, music appreciation, beauty culture, etiquette and Budgeting the Family Income chattered and squirmed in the centre of each floor. Behind exhibits and pupils lay the stories of some 75,000 men and wo- men stranded by Depression and floated off poverty, despair or boredom by a movement which has become one of the most significant phenomena of the past decade...
...sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress she's wearing-the one Gretta wo' when she was the Queen of Sweden. Well, where you wanta go now? Motorboat races? Golf tournament? Man, there's something doin' every minute...