Word: dungeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Christ" for 1,000 years." This selection is supposed to have been going on since 1874. The War was one great proving of the chosen ones. By 1928 will have come, the predictions go, another great cataclysm, a grand bust-up. "Nations will battle; the dead will be dung on the earth...
...enthusiastic reader of your magazine I wish to take this opportunity of correcting an error in TIME, Feb. 7. On p. 10 of that issue there appears an item, concerning "one Butterick, at Hankow. Chinese flung at him pots of dung...
...many readers of your magazine in Hankow, as well as to the said Butterick, who is made the subject of such unfortunate publicity. It cannot be denied that there exists an ample supply of this form of ammunition in this turbulent metropolis but it is not a fact that dung was flung at the gentleman in question. I was present in Hankow during the hectic days of early January and therefore am able to testify that I personally was not aware that dung was flung, and can also aver that Butterick was not the object of such an hostile manifestation...
...possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...
...would, therefore, be greatly appreciated if, in the general interest of truth, you would publish a retractment of your statement and would admonish the writer thereof, who I must conclude, was led by his flair for the humorous to bring up thusly the ancient oriental question of "Hu flung dung...