Word: chien
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chen Chien Routed. The only notable military action of the week occurred when Chiang Kaishek, onetime Generalissimo of all the Southern Nationalist armies, now War Lord of Shanghai and Nanking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) surrounded and captured 5,000 men commanded by his onetime subordinate, General Chen Chien. Despatches indicated that General Chen will be offered up to the Powers by General Chiang as a "Red" who, on his own responsibility, ordered and carried out the so-called "atrocities" against Occidentals at Nanking (TIME, April...
...down the hill, were oddly enough the first to wind anything. They told Golden Toes that his mother, Rennie, was looking beautiful and young Toes, sociable no end, repeated the remark at home. Kim, the lean Irish rake, who had often enough growled that Rennie had "neither chic nor chien" and who despised the chows as stupid foreigners, bristled at the news, but not in anger. A tremor passed down the lupine spine off big Boris, too, and that very afternoon he was so sentimental about Rennie's glossy brown coat and hang-down ears that Tessa, his Russian...
During the week one General Wang Shih Chien, not previously mentioned in despatches, took it upon himself to keep order at Peking with a handful of mercenaries, and generally mediated between the contending factions. Tuan Chi-jui and Tsao Kun, respectively "Chief Executive of China" and "Last President of China," each pretended during the week that he exercised the executive power. Both prudently announced these claims from unstated hiding places at Peking, since neither retained a shred of authority, though Tuan claimed to possess the Government seals...
Among the numerous atrocities of "Little Hsu" one is especially notable. Seven years ago he was the guest of General Lu Chien-chang at Tientsin. While they were walking in the garden, "Little Hsu" whipped out a revolver and shot Lu point blank through the heart. "Little Hsu's" power was at its height at the time, and no one dared to lay a finger upon him. Such was the steely eyed man whom Chief Executive Tuan Chi-jui was rumored to be on the point of calling to the post of Premier last week...
...Mais non, mais non! Je vous dit qu'ils dorment." A hundred-franc note passed. "Nom de chien! Je vous-eh bien! Je vais voir." Minutes passed...