Word: amongst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these demands should be and the Dean naturally asked them what they wanted. Their reply was that they wanted nothing. "This is not just an isolated case; I could cite numerous others. The general mass of Chinese students, as yet at least, are unaffected by Bolshevism, and anti-foreignism amongst the Chinese people is the exception rather than the rule. "I turned over the chair of mathematics at Boone to a Chinese gentleman who is a graduate of Columbia. He furthermore took a postgraduate course at Princeton. He is anti-Bolshevik, and, while, essentially pro-Chinese, he is nevertheless strongly...
...latest novel, "The Dancing Floor," Mr. Buchan shifts somewhat his old location of the Highlands, and his gentlemen are not of his usual type of British sportsmen. It is, in fact, somewhat of a shock to see his technique work as well amongst the hills of an Aegan island as amongst his own Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale...
John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
...obliging, conjured together a ministry of professional statesmen. The new Government represents militarist-torn China in much the same way that a sea captain whose crew have mutinied and are fighting amongst themselves represents the cringing passengers locked below decks...
...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...