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...ruthless Dictator is practical. He and Trotsky are always spitting in each other's face, but at an Oriental bazaar the rug dealers think nothing of a little saliva-and J. Stalin is to his grim fingertips an Oriental, a Georgian brigand, bomb-thrower and safe-blower who is now on terms of diplomatic friendship with fellow Dictators, Presidents, Kings. If, by invoking Trotsky as a conspirator against himself, Stalin can conveniently bump off such Old Bolsheviks in Russia as do actually get in his way from time to time, so much to the good. If there were...
...whom it was said: Sanctus Ivo erat Brito, Advocatus et non latro, Res miranda populo-"St. Ives was a Breton, lawyer and no brigand, a thing amazing to the people...
...arrest of burly Andre Spada. notorious Corsican brigand (TIME. June 12): decision by authorities to hospitalize him for mental examination after he spent two weeks knitting socks, explained that it helps him communicate with...
...Bitter Tea of General Yen (Columbia). A sweet and intelligent young woman whose forbears are New England puritans arrives in Shanghai from the U. S. to marry a handsome and fiery missionary. Two accidents occur. The young lady sees her rickshaw boy brutally run down by a Chinese brigand-general; her marriage ceremony is delayed because the missionary has to rescue six children from an orphanage in besieged Chapei. During the rescue, the young woman is kidnapped by the brigand-general who ran over the coolie. General Yen (Nils Asther) whisks Megan Davis to his summer palace, dresses...
...Tiger, takes his in cash. He has a scheme to revolt against his aging general, lead the best of his troops to another province and set up as a war lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready & waiting. The Hawk's woman is attractive but untractable, finally seems to yield to Wang the Tiger's shrew-taming blandishments. He marries her, loves her like a war lord, and when he finds she is plotting to betray...