Word: dwellings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strapping cannibals who communicate with each other by "modulated grunts" were reported to dwell on the Island of Tiburon, off the coast of Sonora, Mexico, by the Director of Education, Sonora, last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris...
...Free and Independent Republic of Liberia, constituted in 1847 on the West coast of Africa, especially to make provision for freed U. S. slaves. The President of Liberia is of American descent. The Constitution, Legislation, Executive and Judicature of Liberia almost duplicate the U. S. pattern. Two million Negroes dwell there upon an area as large as Pennsylvania...
Britons viewed with disquiet, last week, the announcement that 43,029 more British workers were unemployed than the 1,516,171 who were jobless during the week previous. (Coal or other strikers are not included in these figures.) Southern Irishmen dwell under a government picturesquely and adroitly named The Irish Free State. They are vexed because it "is not Irish, is not free and is not a state."* They vent their spleen by constantly bedeviling the British Government. Last week the British mint refused to quote prices for minting a new series of Irish Free State coins from which...
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...