Word: bankes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slight diversion it might interest your readers to know that bathing in the Philippines is conducted in any convenient place-at a well or "on the bank of a stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers...
...Bank of France and its subsidiaries have recently begun to purchase gold with paper francs at approximately the rate prevailing throughout international exchange...
...August, at the hour of Wu's northern triumph the Cantonese struck at his war base, the Yangtze valley. The troops of their "mystery army" poured northward under Super-Tu-chun Chang Kaishek. Too late Wu rushed southward to defend Hankow and Wuchang-his twin strongholds on either bank of the Yangtze. Hankow fell at once. Wuchang has ever since been cruelly besieged. Reputedly 10,000 Wuchangese have died of starvation. Last week the besiegers came to terms with the besieged. The cycle of revolution which began a decade and a half ago has ringed China with warfare...
Married. Geraldine Livingston Thompson of Red Bank, N. J., to Howell Van Gerbig of New Canaan, Conn., onetime (1924) Princeton hockey captain ("another Hobey Baker") and far-punting footballer; in Manhattan...
...Bank. In Manhattan last week the Interstate Trust Co., with one-time (1923-26) Governor George S. Silzer of New Jersey as chief organizer and president, opened for business. Capitalization...