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Broad, clean, tree-planted streets diverge from the Omon (Great Gate), near which stands a monument (TIME, July 26) to the 730 geisha and joro girls who perished during the earthquake. Within the quarter dwell in comparative luxury the 3,000 girls who are envied of their 50,000 lesser imitators throughout Japan...
Chaos flung engulfing wings over China last week. In their shadow Anarchy gibbered. The Chinese Communist tide, welling upward from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), gained undisputed headway at last. During the week the one hundred million Chinese who dwell in the Yangtze River valley found themselves in the power of the Cantonese Communist Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek. The Great Powers, anxious, perturbed, despatched a total of 40 warships up the Yangtze to protect their nationals...
...traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born to reign if ever mortal was-that she should abandon Sandringham to a king-emperor who was, after all, her son. Filially meek, George V and his consort were content to dwell at York Cottage, on the fringe of Sandringham, whenever they sojourned with "the Queen"* in Norfolk...
...everyone knows, numerous members of the rapidly prolific and fabulously wealthy du Pont clan dwell together in a residential park near Wilmington, Del. They are distinguished as a family by a lack of ostentation, a generous solicitude for their retainers' welfare, and an astute dominance in national business (for example, General Motors) and Delaware politics...
...here to dwell on personal differences, but quite frankly I have not had a square deal. . . . I was walking peaceably along my path when suddenly I was assailed by an angry bull of excommunication...