Search Details

Word: chungli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Within 72 hours Last Stander Chang's army of 50,000 was put to absolute rout by Nationalist & Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi, who took 20,000 prisoners, and barely missed capturing Polygamist Chang as he fled to Manchuria. Rejoicing was general, for Chang Tsung-chang is brutal, a thief, a sadist who loves to lash his prisoners, an old-woman-beater and a young-woman-despoiler, a murderer, treacherous, outrageous, godless (TIME, March 7, 1927). But, as Columnist Brisbane remarked, Chang Tsung-chang has "verve"; and 20 wives and concubines have not rendered him "anemic." As such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Potent Hero | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

While in Peking the Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi swaggered riotously with 2,000 Mohammedan stalwarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Prattling | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

...182.Prospect of further conflict loomed when fiery Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi, "The Hewer of Communist Heads," declared at Peking, last week, that the Nationalist Armies will now extend their authority over Manchuria, while their enemies "scatter like dead leaves before the rising wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...members of the championship Junior team who will receive their numerals and have their names inscribed on the class trophy are as follows: Captain T. O. Brewster '29, J. T. Allen '29, J. J. Antonnucio '29, H. H. Chung '29, Timothy Cleary, Jr., '29, C. T. Collens '29, W. H. Donehue '29, R. B. Glerasch '29, J. D. Kenney '29, J. H. Norris '29, K. D. Robinson, Jr., '29, R. E. Stratton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWELVE JUNIORS AWARDED CLASS BASEBALL INSIGNIA | 6/5/1928 | See Source »

...main offensive thrusting up through Shantung against the North China Peking Government. In collaboration as commanders of the Southern armies were the great marshals Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang. They concentrated last week upon capturing Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, which was defended by Marshal Chang Chung-chang, a subordinate of the great Peking dictator, Marshal Chang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Big War | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Previous | 263 | 264 | 265 | 266 | 267 | 268 | 269 | 270 | 271 | 272 | 273 | 274 | 275 | 276 | 277 | 278 | 279 | 280 | Next