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...wife and her step-motherly care of his part Hawaiian son, walked into Harbin last week dressed in a potato sack and part of a tent. Other U. S. travelers were not so lucky. Nude, blue with cold, suffering from exhaustion they staggered into town to tell about four brigand-staged trainwrecks. Most graphic description came from young Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the Nation, on his way across Russia to study in Britain at Cambridge...
...swaggering," "noisy," "audacious," "crafty," "lusty," "flamboyant," "hot-tempered." Other words, complimentary or vituperative, might occur to commentators biased one way or the other. For instance the Scripps-Howard Express (now the Rocky Mountain News) six years ago chose these brands for Publisher Bonfils and his Post: "shame," "disgrace," "bandit," "brigand." "lawless," "bunco," "scaly monstrosity," "mountebank," "... a blackmailing, blackguarding, nauseaus (sic) sheet which stinks to high heaven and which is the shame of newspapermen the world over." But neither friend nor foe could call Publisher Bonfils "sensitive." Journalistic rough-&-tumble was his particular meat. He was an able name-caller himself...
...middle: "Here I work like the devil getting this figure and then they always find some big fat blonde to point out as Mary Garden! ... I am at last heartbroken over a man. He is, alas, Andrea Spada. I have been in Corsica where he was a swashbuckling brigand and I loved him so much I named my dog after...
While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...
...house on the outskirts of Nanking some distance from her husband's bedroom. A Nationalist soldier on a rampage broke into her bed room, stabbed her with his bayonet, making the third attack unfortunate Mrs. Hearne has been subjected to since she went to live in China. "If brigand threats of further outrages are carried out," he warned the Nationalist Government, "the result will be a deplorable . . . reaction of public opinion throughout the world. The Chinese people and government will be disgraced...