Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Protectorate. Among Chinese the threat from Tokyo was generally taken to mean that Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka now purposes to carry his famed "positive policy" toward China to the extreme of establishing a de facto Japanese Protectorate over Manchuria...
...Pablo Garcia de Jesus Maria of Aguascalientes, who, as he was leaving for exile, gave absolution to a dying man and who was for so doing mutilated by his guards in the ears, nose, tongue and eyes, then killed and dropped off the train...
...priest, who when examined by a reporter for El Eco de Mexico, Los Angeles, showed proof that he had been purposely inoculated with the bacillus of leprosy by the agents of Calles; other priests who have been inoculated with disease under the pretense of vaccination...
...confession-upon these it lays emphasis. One peculiarity, however, has made it famous and has caused its founder, Frank N. D. Buchman, Muhlenburg graduate and Lutheran minister, to be called ugly names. At Buchman "houseparties" (gatherings devoted to mutual confession and "washing out"), sex is the pièce de résistance. Mr. Buchman and his assistants are accused of reducing their diagnoses of spiritual sufferings to bad sex habits. The weak-chinned element in schools and colleges, full of relief at finding so plain a focal point for their self-betterment ambitions or so simple a seeming cause...
...report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there he was, and there the Guiana vulture, bird of ill omen, flapped in the dust, croaked over dung in the street...