THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1937.
THE
WORLD
GOES BY
THE use of nors pointed
HE use of words, as Mr. A. P.
out, is thing.
a strange and
awesome
Merrill's Triumphal Flight
LANDS IN ESSEX
LONDON, TO-DAY. ANOTHER ATLANTIC FLIGHT CAME TO A SUCCESS- FUL CONCLUSION YESTER We all misuse the King's Eng- DAY WHEN THE AMERICAN lish at one time or another, and AIRMEN, DICK MERRILL AND even the inimitable Ulysses has an JACK LAMBIE LANDED AT occasional lapse from grace in this NORTHWEALD, IN ESSEX. respect.
But one must draw the line the word "sensational”
at
in
The airmen immediately took off again for Croydon, where they landed at 6.38 yesterday evening. Looking over the back files of the The fliers hope to be back China Mail the other day (this is New York 24 hours after the Co what I am paid a fabulous salary ronation with films of the ceremon- to do) I was struck (all of a 'cap, ies in London. If the venture is as they say) by this dreadful word. successful they will each receive
A, a minor player, beats B, an- the sum of £20,000: other minor player, in a tennis tournament. Sensational.
The favourite fails to win the something-or-other Stakes. Sensa-
tional.
Fog caused the airmen to overshoot their mark and land in Essex.
Contrary to earlier reports, the fièrs were carrying the first film
A hockey centre-forward fails to of the Hindenburg disaster. score in a match. Sensational.
Reuter and Trans-Ocean.
The word even penetrates with monotonous regularity into the realm of international politics, which sure- ly should be held sacred and not profaned by such epithets.
Mr. Norman Davis, Colonel Beck, M. Titulescu and others of their ilk, all come in for their share of the word.
Mr. Davis makes an
ment. Sensational.
announce-
Colonel Beck goes to Budapest. (Or does not go). Sensational.
M. Titulescu goes to Paris. Sensa-
tional.
The Clark Gable
“Scandal”
WOMAN SENT TO PRISON
Los Angeles, To-day. Now if Messrs. Beck and Titu-ment was passed yesterday on Mrs. Sentence of one year's imprison- lescu went to Budapest and Paris, Violet Norton, an Englishwoman, and, for some mysterious reason, for misuse of the mails in connec- failed to return, there would be some tion with her claim that the he-man justification for use of the word.
We might also regard with a toler-father of her 13-year-old daughter. film star, Clark Gable, was the ant air its use in the case of Bri- tain deserting Geneva, or Italy send-tion authorities
The judge directed the immigra- ing a special correspondent to Lon-Mrs. Norton after she had served
to take care
of don for the Coronation, though the her sentence. latter, one feels, would be deserving of a far stronger expression.
According to the District At- No torney, when she leaves gaol she
word in our vocabulary could ad-will probably be deported to Can- equately meet the situation,
But in the
ada, from which country she en-
ordinary, everyday tered the United States,
item of news, the word should be
abolished.
Mrs. Norton, it will be remem- bered, charged that Clark Gable "There is something else that lived with her in Essex under the offends me, the heading "Pretty name of Frank Billings. Wedding." By way of variety, and
The case, in which letters from
when the type will fit, an enterpris- Mae West were read, caused a sen- ing sub-editor occasionally spreads sation in the film colony.-Reuter. himself to "Very Pretty Wedding."
While doubtless a compliment to the institution of marriage, the ex-| pression begins to leave a slight feeling of nausea after one has read it a dozen times or so in the course of a week.
CANTON PLANE CRASHES
Canton, To-day.. Yesterday at 7:30 a.m. a practic- ing machine of the Kwangtung Air Force crashed on open red.
ground at
If one is a confirmed bachelor one begins, after a while, to see
Nam Shak Tau, Honan Island. It
Less of this method of describing is stated that the two pilots were these ceremonies. "Local Couple not seriously injured. Hitched" is far
Or even "Anótkore to the point.
Sucker Weds,”
though this might lead to an action
for slander, or even libel.
"Passed away" is another
•
one
that makes me rock with suppress-
ed anger. Why not simply
"died?"
Correspondent.
Our Own}
TWO CUBS FOR GEN. GOERING'S LIONESS
•
Gen. Goering's favourite lioness, Are we so squeamish that we have Caesarine, has become the mother to describe this fairly natural and of two cubs. Frau Goering visited inevitable event in such genteel man- them at the Zoo. She was able to ner
tell her husband that the cubs are doing well.
Think it over, fellow subs.
ULYSSES.
Until the lioness grew too large she was Gen. Goering's constant companion in his Berlin house and at his hunting lodge. When Cae- A semi-circular wall found by mem-1sarine was six months old, how- bers of the Worthing Archaeological ever, he had regretfully to hand Society on Highdown Hill near the her over to the care of the Ber- town is believed to be the remains of
Roman temple.
lin Zoo..
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