Word: colonel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Opium. Colonel Daniel W. MacCormack of Boston, technical adviser to the Persian government, urged the U. S., France, Germany, Japan, other drug manufacturing countries, to follow Persia in stemming the flow of poppy juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...
...little baby to tell it of your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer, Colonel Petrovich, froze to death searching help...
...course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might be a good plan to conceal his first name till the very...
...Story. Edith Brown, lost in a fog, sits down on Colonel Dessiter's steps. He, about to die, asks her in. Is she by chance a typist? Thank goodness! Will she please take down this story, great danger though it will place her in? Yes, yes, Miss Brown fears nothing in life. For the next three hours she lives in a hair-raising world of super-romantic adventure. Colonel Dessiter has possession of the worldwide schemes of the Communists including the Chinese situation, India, Europe, the U. S.?everywhere. Now Miss Brown has possession of them too and since...
Miss Brown says good-by to Colonel Dessiter and proceeds further into her new world. It contains sudden wealth and perpetual excitement?attractive male plotters, vicious female ones; noble Russians and villainous; plentiful bombs, taxicab rides, cocktails, cryptograms. She would never come through safely but for Colonel Dessiter, who does not die after all. Through a special secret Government bureau, X. Y. O., they foil Moscow, save the nation, preserve the world. On the last page, Miss Brown learns that Colonel Dessiter's name is Geoffrey. "Then, for the first time, Miss Brown was kissed upon the lips...