Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles, Charles S. Chaplin, screen comedian, obtained a temporary injunction preventing the showing of films in which one Charles Amador copies the old time Chaplin makeup, including his famous silly derby hat, half-portion mustache, baggy pants, enormous and weird shoes and nimble bamboo cane. Amador contended that neither Chaplin, nor anyone else, for that matter, is entitled to a monopoly of such a makeup, which was used among the natives "even in the time of King Tut-ankh-Amen." While a temporary injunction was obtained, there has been no permanent decision...
...earthquakes from time immemorial. There are records of great earth disturbances in A.D. 684, 869, 1361, 1498, 1596, 1707, 1792, 1846, 1854, 1896. Minor tremors are a daily occurance. It is estimated that there are 1,500 earth tremors a year. This is the reason for the light, bamboo construction of most Japanese buildings...
...position was offered to General Hwang Fu, Doctors Koo, Chen Ting-Wang and Yen, who decided to settle their fate by a game of Mah Jongg. It was arranged that the lowest score should accept the vacant position. They " played all night " and Dr. Koo lost " by one bamboo...
...wheels, which visits profiteers. (P. 10.) Samuel Vauclain and Samuel Gompers. They make good speeches. (P. 6.) The airplane at Étampes directed by wireless. (P. 26.) Carl Sandburg and his mystical, rhythmical love of Chicago. (P. 15.) Dr. Koo, who is said to have lost "by one bamboo" and, sportsmanlike, to have taken the post of Foreign Minister as penalty. (P. 13.) An endeavor to stimulate undergraduate thought and learning in spite of the curriculum. (P. 19.) Foch, Marshal of Poland. (P. 23.) More pay for the men who make steel and cloth. (P. 6.) Ambassadorial homesickness as exhibited...