Scandal after scandal would break, but it would be like water off a duck's back; no heads rolled, and no one seemed particularly perturbed.

Their complexion was lustreless and clammy, although Aunt Evelyn's odd man had given them all the energy of his elbow.

[…] although for the most part he believed the devil was too good a general to let his soldiers waste their time in cavalcading about on broom-sticks.

A dispatch from Kiamusze on the lower Sungari river revealed that hero of the Soviet Union Lt. Znamensky has been appointed City Kommandant. He is appointing new administrators replace those of the Japanese.