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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chinese" O'Neill. At this play tender members of the audience will do well to plug their ears with cotton. Toward the end of the second act, the muscular "Chinese" O'Neill, soldier of fortune extraordinary, finds himself and his English friends, including the dashing Hon. Nancy Beresford, trapped within a rickety Chinese inn by crawling yellow men. O'Neill begins blasting away with a machine gun. The ladies have horse pistols. Several other characters have miscellaneous shooting irons. But despite this artillery the Chinamen triumph, enter with a cabinet in which is contained the corpse of the Hon. Nancy...
Five centuries ago, when Church was State and monkhood was in flower, Joan of Arc with shaven head prayed on a pile of faggots in Rouen, while Warwick's English soldiers set the pyre alight, and the crafty-eyed Bishop of Beauvais, "Unjust Judge Cauchon," twisted the amethyst ring on his finger and watched...
...village of Farnham, Surrey, English monks, members of the orders before which Joan was tried, laid the cornerstone of a church to St. Joan of Arc. Present was Mgr. Eugéne Stanislas Le Senne, today's Bishop of Beauvais...
...glad that England has at last made this reparation to the Saint," said the just Bishop. "Joan was always in favor of peace between the English and French forces. Four times she sent heralds to bring about an armistice. At her trial, when someone suggested that she was inspired by hatred of the English, she replied, 'God does not hate the English...
Carefully written in English for the benefit of foreigners, this pamphlet listed Japan's "Rules of the Road and Hints to Motorists." In part these Rules read...