Word: elders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street...
...large thick man, full jawed, pleasant-faced, Col. Grant will be 48 come Independence Day. His father was Maj. Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the Soldier President. The Colonel was graduated from West Point in 1903, did the usual round of foreign duty, married the daughter of Elder Statesman Elihu Root. He has three daughters of his own, but no U.S. Grant IV. In the War he was a member of the U.S. General Staff Corps, on the official fringe of the Paris Peace Conference...
Excitement is risky for octogenarians, and so last week in Geneva, Switzerland, august elder U.S. Statesman Elihu Root, 84, was kept in bed for two whole days by his vigilant and cheery nurse, Miss Emily Stewart. As the personal representative of President Herbert Hoover, Elder Statesman Root had just scored an exciting triumph. After wrestling with the League of Nations committee on the World Court Protocol for 14 days−with a two-hour nap at his hotel every afternoon−he has achieved acceptance of a formula under which the U.S. Senate is expected at last to ratify...
...Pliny the Elder and Quintillian", Professor Rand, Sever...
...dawn, Prince Olaf rushed back from Stockholm to Oslo, in order to be there to welcome Princess Martha when she arrived for the wedding with her parents. Prince Karl and Princess Ingeborg, the Duke and Duchess of Vastergotland. Benignly in the background, for once, was the Duke's elder brother, His Majesty Gustaf V, King of Sweden and of the Goths and Wends, LL.D...