Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...process of evolution the hermit Japanese of the early cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels...
...requested . . . to make extensive speaking tours . . . Such a campaign I cannot make. In the first place, it is physically destructive to travel such distances making speeches all the way. In the second place, I cannot afford it, for my campaign is not supported by moneyed interests and I must count the pennies...
When Premier Count Bethlen rose to make the official announcement in Parliament, the greatest enthusiasm was displayed. Count Bethlen said: "I have no definite information, but I know that Mr. Harding is now on the way to Europe and I think on the way to Hungary. . . . Detailed arrangements will have to be made with the League through Lord Cecil when he reaches Paris...
...fight was held in the River Platt football field, Buenos Aires, attended by 35,000-a record for the Southern Hemisphere. Lodge went down on the strength of two rights to the jaw and a left to the stomach. He took the count with his eyes open...
...Count Ludwig Salm von Hoog-straeten, Austrian nobleman who eloped recently with Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan: "The Chicago Tribune credited me with having made the following statement to 'an old friend' in the Ritz Hotel in Paris: 'Six months more of this and if Mr. Rogers does not come through [with some money], I am going to get a divorce...