Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Busy little white men, ever ready to oil dark palms, shepherd droves of curious, prying U. S. tourists about the earth, bribe warring Chinese Tuchuns to desist and let them pass, wheedle and bluff their way through situations that would stagger a master strategist. As the Anchor liner California docked at Manhattan last week her Thomas Cook conducted passengers effervesced with triumph at having visited on their Mediterranean cruise a city which was at the time beseiged by some 2,000 rebel tribesmen-Damascus...
Meanwhile Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer arrived on board his flagship the armored cruiser Rochester, anchored off the Nicaraguan fortress of Bragmans Bluff, on the eastern coast, awaited orders from Washington...
...Before bluff, hearty Countryman King resigned as Premier, he sought Lord Byng and advised the dissolution of Parliament, which would have caused the election to be held under Liberal auspices. The Governor General refused somewhat peremptorily to order dissolution and Premier King resigned forthwith. On the contrary, when suave, aristocratic, moneyed Premier Meighen approached Baron Byng with a request for dissolution last week it was granted instanter -thereby putting the electoral machinery in the hands of Conservatives. Though Lord Byng acted within his legal rights, custom virtually obligated him to follow the original "advice" of Premier King. Unquestionably the efforts...
...Black Canon road, 20 miles out of Phoenix, Ariz., a crowd of homesteaders last week executed an orderly lynching. When the grisly ceremony was over, Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work had been hanged for the second time in two weeks-in effigy. Again as at Scotts Bluff, Neb. (TIME, June 7, FARMERS), dissatisfaction with the Government's reclamation policy was the cause of the atrocity...
Playing through a serious rainstorm over the windswept Knollwood course at Lake Bluff, near Chicago, the University of Chicago's "Maroon" team slashed drives from wet tees, mashied onto muggy greens, sank putts into brimful cups, to win the Big 10* golf championship last week. Best golf for the day was played by Ralph Kunstadter, University of Illinois, with two rounds...