Word: chowed
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...attention to pupnapping. That it had become a new racket was last week apparent from other reports. In Memphis police searched for a man driving an old wagon, who represented himself as a humane society officer, seized dogs, held them for ransom. In Kansas City, Alice Wolfberg missed her chow, Ching. By telephone a man demanded $10 from her, later $20. She agreed to pay but summoned police. They arrested two men who arrived to collect...
...During my reign I hope with heavenly guidance to emulate the great Chinese Emperors of the golden Chow dynasty.* Whatever our political differences I am sure that the Manchurian Empire and America can work together for the preservation of peace...
...Manchu but pure Chinese were the golden Chow who ruled China for 866 years (1122-256 B. C), longest-lived of all China's dynasties. Under Chow emperors Chinese savants were instrumental in discovering the compass. Under them, too, was established the first "league of nations," a League of States to prevent War, in 515 B.C. "How courteous and elegant are all its way" wrote Confucius. "I am for the House of Chow...
...Route Army. His marines marched into Foochow, the rebel capital, almost unopposed because the veterans of the 19th Route Army who stood off Japan in the Battle of Shanghai have been largely replaced by stumbling recruits. Reeling southward last week the rebels paused briefly at a new capital, Chang-chow. From the coast and from the north, more Chiang troops came to hound General Tsai and his army into the back country...
...frankly imitative of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. Cartoonist Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren of Stars & Stripes supplied humorous sketches of C. C. C. camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore to, the 237-word C. C. C. enlistment oath was reprinted. Local camp news appeared under such headings as " 'Sing in Rain' at Hills Grove," "Things 'Nice' at Allenton," "Camp Perkins...