Word: disjecta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next scene was at the Pan American Building, whither 4,000 guests had been bidden to the reception. About half the number came. The rooms were bowers of flowers?pink hydrangeas, pink roses, larkspur, peonies, ferns, spruce. Disjecta membra of the Marine Band, in three sections of the building, played the wedding march from Tannhauser, as the bride and bridegroom entered and crossed the Aztec Garden and passed the reflecting pool on a carpet of scarlet velvet...
...paving the way for necessary concessions to the Japanese point of view and the elimination of the, diplomatically speaking, insignificant obstacles which stand in the way of cooperation between the two strongest Far Eastern Powers, both of which are equally interested in the exploitation, political and economic, of the disjecta membra of China...