Word: cometted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exactly like comets are Chinese War Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years with brilliance undimmed, braggadocio redoubled. Last week from the limbo of a remote Buddhist monastery in Tibet there returned to the everlasting Chinese fray Comet Wu Pei-fu, the "Scholar War Lord...
...Comet Wu has of course captured Peking (TIME, May 3, 1926)- indeed one is hardly a real "War Lord" in China until one has captured Peking, preferably several times. Absolutely nothing was known last week of the strength or nature of the forces with which Comet Wu suddenly appeared on the Yangtsze River in central China. As usual the "Scholar War Lord" heralded his approach with an exquisitely worded manifesto in purest classic script which his mysterious agents distributed to diplomatic representatives of the Great Powers in China...
Such is the grand, authentic manner, such are the classic words "reluctance," "strength" and "peace" with which a proper Chinese Comet always and inevitably returns...
Announcement was made yesterday by Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard College Observatory that the comet discovered on June 2 at Rosebank, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, will be visible through telescopes in the northern hemisphere in the latter part of this month and that it will be observed by the Harvard astronomers...
...declared that although the comet is becoming brighter it will not be visible to the naked eye. Observations taken at Cape Town, Africa show that the comet made its nearest approach to the sun on May 10. It is still out of reach of telescopes in the northern hemisphere but it is travelling in an apparent northerly direction...