Word: changing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese soldiers who captured me handcuffed my wrists and put me in a freight car. . . . "When they led me up before Chang Tsung-chang [minor anti-Communist War Lord] I said: 'Well, you have searched my baggage and found nothing [incriminating], so why hold me a prisoner...
...When they decided to send me to Peking, Chang Tsung-chang sent his own automobile and his principal wife to take me to the station...
...Nanking Government of General Chiang Kaishek; the Honan regime of the "Scholar War Lord," Wu Pei-fu; the Peking Government of the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin; the independent and mobile forces of General Yang...
...Associated Press later reported: "Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, after an interview with Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the Northern Chinese leader, yesterday, was the guest of the Anglo-American Association at luncheon today. He made a speech recounting humorously his adventures as an explorer in Latin-American countries...
...Chang. How did they do it? is the question everyone asks. The picture runs along on astonishingly familiar terms with the terrors of the Siamese jungle. It photographs elephants from under their feet, "shoots" tigers almost in their jaws, films a family of bears at play, leopards on the hunt, snakes in death struggles, monkeys a clowning, elephants nudging a village into oblivion. Dramatically, it is an account of the family of one Kru, of Siam, how he preserves his life and propagates his kind in the face of hostile nature. When wild beasts take to marauding, he takes...