Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special car rolled into Washington D. C. and on it Pianist Ignace Paderewski. He lunched at the White House with other distinguished Poles, strummed on the Blue Room piano, had some tea, returned to his private car. Other eminent callers of the week included Harvey S. Firestone (rubber), William Morgan Butler (politics...
...military cloak. At that symbol the crowd cheered, remembering that Lev Davidovich Trotsky had appeared thus when he organized and commanded the Red Army of 1,500,000 men. Today, however, Trotsky is as threadbare as his cloak. Man and symbol they passed, last week, into a drab railway car which rumbled out of Moscow at twenty minutes after nine. The crowd, moved but still perfectly docile, fell to sobbing plenteous Russian tears, murmured, "Trotsky is gone. Trotsky...
...revolt of the peasants finds General Dolgorucki in the coal car of a railroad train, where taunting revolutionists are making him expiate his onetime pride and arrogance. Saved by the girl, he jumps off the train in time to see the long line of cars, one of which contains his dearly beloved, crash through a broken bridge into drowned and dismal wreckage...
...situation here in Yunnanfu," he continues, "is very critical. Robbers are in control of the railway and in order to have peace I rented a small railway car, locked all entries, closed all windows, and blinds, barricaded the door and then I had an unmolested journey. The country is in a bad way. A battle is expected any moment for the control of Yunnanfu. Troops are facing each other only 30 miles east of the city wall. To the south Tooyin of Zemao has declared his independence and has called all the pirates to his assistance. Nevertheless I am going...
...best of feeling prevailed between the Mayor and the visiting President. They left the railway station arm in arm, they drove about the city in an open car to see and to be soon. For the official reception a painting of the Free State President, decorated in red, white, blue, and green, with appropriate mottoes in Gaelic and English beneath, left the right atmosphere, keeping in the foreground the bond of sympathy that exists between Chicago and Ireland. Such was the spirit of the day. President Cosgrave is quoted to the effect, that Mayor Thompson would be an effective member...