Word: chili
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ROMANCE OF THE RIO GRANDE (Mary Duncan)?Chili con carne in the manner of Edith Wharton, beautifully photographed...
...forbid," said one of Carry's victims watching her work, "that I should ever strike a woman." She once told how two men tried to asphyxiate her by blowing cigaret-smoke through a hotel keyhole. When one place she raided proved to sell nothing more potent than chili con carne, she asked God to forgive the owner for tempting U. S. appetites with foreign dishes. She objected to the tobacco trade-name "Bull Durham" because bulls were manifestly no tobacco users. When she was jailed, a follower wrote to the judge: "We now propose if Mrs. Nation is held...
...famous. The town itself is unimportant, but there is a church, and last week there was a machine gun in the belfry-a federal gun. "Sangre de Dios!" cried the captain of a band of Insurrectos which had surprised this little federal outpost, "Blood of Christ, bring me chili, bring me peppers!" Armfuls and armfuls of dried chili were stacked on the windward side of the steeple by artful Insurrectos who took care to work under the eaves of the church, out of range of the machine gun. Then the pepper pyre was lighted. Thick clouds of oily, acrid, pepper...
Last week Chang chartered a tramp steamer and stepped aboard her at Dairen, with 250 hired soldiers of fortune including the "White Russian" General Ataman Seminov. Without the slightest hindrance from the Japanese port authorities the tramp steamer cleared, wallowed out into the Gulf of Chili, and steamed the short 100 miles to the Chinese port of Teng-chowfu in Shantung. There Chang landed amidst a rabble army of soldiers who had served him as war lord. All night long they labored, with many a grin, unloading from the tramp steamer rifles, machine guns, light artillery...
...country his broad and sympathetic understanding of their problems and his capacity to impart his knowledge, he had become a profound inspiration to all students of international relations. The official positions which he has so ably held in the American legations in St. Petersburg and Vlenna and later in Chili, Sweden, and Northern Russia and especially in Paris during the peace Conference when he served as the principal representative of the American delegation to survey and report conditions in Central Europe and the Balkans, all contributed to his immense store of practical experience. The friendly compacts which he had reestablished...