Word: cordons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seen jackrabbit drives in the West, in which a cordon of hunters closes in on the helpless rabbits and drives them into a pen, where they are clubbed or shot. The spectacle at Nanking after the Japanese captured the city was very much the same, with human beings as the victims...
Died. Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, 80, last surviving Japanese graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1881), campaigner in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; in Odawara, Japan. Last week Emperor Hirohito posthumously decorated him with the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers...
...Jerusalem one day last week a young Jew named Aryeh Kotcher concealed something in his garments, got past a cordon of police without it being noticed, joined throngs of Jews praying at the ancient Wailing Wall. During a moment of silence, Aryeh Kotcher whipped out his shofar or ram's horn, let out a loud toot before police bore down and arrested him. Public shofar-blowing in Jerusalem is forbidden by law, for it infuriates Arabs, incites to riot.* But Jew Kotcher was happy because it was Yom Kippur, and his ritual blast on the horn had signalized...
...arrangements as to Spain have never prevented either the Rightists or the Leftists from bringing through its purely technical cordon of observers and warships absolutely all the men, munitions and aircraft they could afford to buy and manage to sneak past their enemies. The neutral cordon has jurisdiction only over "non-Spanish ships" and in practice a Spanish ship has been anything flying either a Leftist or a Rightist flag. Chronic last week were such cases as the troopships which arrive from Italy flying the Italian flag and escorted by Italian destroyers. hoist the Spanish flag as they enter Spanish...
...ushered in a six-week run of opera at the Cincinnati Zoo. Busy Fausto Cleva was again conducting. Manager Oscar Hild had got hold of such Metropolitan singers as Bruna Castagna, Carlo Morelli, Leon Rothier, Norman Cordon, John Gurney. Friday operas were to be broadcast over the NBC Blue network...