Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ohio Rivers. Egypt is full of little hills and eminences, wooded overhead, peopled with rattlesnakes on the ground, honeycombed with mines beneath. Nearly everyone carries a revolver or automatic; nearly everyone is a deadly shot. It is necessary in order to support life. "Egypt" is like the Wild West, except that it is untamed. Those who judge the life of the early West by fiction had best go to "Egypt" and have a taste of it in fact...
...portion of the book equal to if not greater than that devoted to battles is devoted to the description of drill regulations and the organization of the body military. These things are not of primary importance except to military men, yet there is plenty of interest in the book for the general reader. In military affairs we have too often been the plaything of chance. Hear a few stories of our past which we too little know...
Germany. The Monarchists in the Reichstag followed a policy of obstruction to the passage of the legislation necessary to the operation of the Experts' Plan and involving its official approval by Germany. Except for the extreme members of the party, it was clear that many Monarchy men were only holding out for better terms, such as a definite determination of Germany's capacity to pay the total of reparations, earlier evacuation of the Ruhr, etc. Also, it seemed not unlikely that much of their opposition was due to the promptings of the powerful industrialists...
...under the direction of Sir Eric Drummond, was a hive of industry. Statesmen, politicians, journalists, interested spectators seized every available accommodation that the venerable city could offer. More people were there than have ever been at any time in its whole history. All the great nations of the world (except the U. S., Russia, Germany) sent delegations, and, with those delegations, families and secretaries, stenographers, etc. In two days it was estimated that 20,000 people had poured into the city. Among the notables present were: Premier MacDonald, Premier Herriot, Premier Theunis. Among the Americans: Mr. ex-Associate Justice John...
Actors. Gen. Wu Pei-fu, Tuchun-of Chihli Province. He is the ablest military mind of China. Under his control is the whole north and centre of China, except Manchuria. He is the Lord Protector of Peking, which is in his province. Although a democrat, he aims at reunifying China by the sword, which policy has brought him into conflict with the Tuchun of Manchuria and Dr. Sun Yatsen, of the South. One of the anomalies of the situation in Peking is that President Tsao-Kun was once an enemy of Gen. Wu. At the time Tsao-Kun was made...