Word: againe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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≫ In Swatow, the Japanese Consulate angrily demanded that British Consul H. D. Bryan "admit that British sailors [from the destroyer Tenedos] were involved in a riot" in which a Chinese was wounded, apologize, punish the sailors, guarantee that it would not happen again. The "riot" was a crowd of...
That same month the stockmarket crashed and the art business went to hell. But Cortlandt Bishop was rich enough to stand the strain. When he died in 1935 sales were picking up, and he left his own galleries the job of auctioning off his collection of art objects, books and...
When he awoke at St. Joseph's Hospital, in Lorain, Ohio, William Capps begged for chicken and watermelon. "I might die," he urged. Doctors put him to sleep again and amputated the rest of his leg to a point five inches below the knee.
Most specific in his condemnation was British Novelist E. M. Forster: "I cannot believe that Christianity will ever cope with the present world-wide mess, and I think that such influence as it retains in modern society is due to its financial backing rather than to its spiritual appeal. It...
No Boys-from-Syracuse fixes have complicated the steady lives of the boys from Rochester, but they face routine confusions. Recent example: a friend mistook Bill for Rob on Main Street, apologized for his error when Bill identified himself. Few days later he stopped Bill again and told him of...