Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Actually supreme at Nanking is the Central Executive Committee of Forty-Six, which recalls by its title the Russian Central Executive Committee. The Chinese Committee is technically responsible to the Party Congress; but the Congress cannot assemble except by order of the Committee, which is supreme when the Congress is not in session...
Sign of the Leopard. "I cannot disturb Mr. Wallace-he has just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying...
With $700,000 on hand for the building of the long-anticipated athletic plant and the prospect of losing $250,000 of it if work is not begun by February, the necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances...
...make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
...almost too well done. We become satiated with an excess of splendor. Let these ladies see to their makeup. . . . How it is to be cut down I cannot imagine. ... I ... I have seen ... I ... I ..." -St. John Ervine, in the World...