Word: favors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baron von Stael-Holstein was the first foreigner ever admitted to the carefully guarded precincts of the Imperial palace of Peking. The court in which the collection was housed was the home of certain Dowager Empresses and of those concubines who had lost the royal favor...
...have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with pneumonia at Managua, missed the Hoover party but was cheered by reports that the President-Elect seemed impressed with the necessity for another canal in view of the Panama Canal's increasing crowdedness...
Second to quick step was the Podesta of Rovigno, small but flourishing Venetian city. His bid for the Dictator's favor was to install a visa system. Hereafter peasants who may wish to move in from the country to Rovigno must apply for a permit 15 days in advance and have it visaed by the Chief of Police. Implacable, the Podesta announced that such visas "will only be granted in case the residence of the applicant in Rovigno is considered necessary or extremely desirable...
Last week a new Commentary on the Holy Scripture, published in England under the direction of Dr. Charles Gore, onetime Bishop of Oxford and famed as perhaps the greatest theologian in the Church of England, came out flatly in favor of Elhanan...
...Mexico. Manduley, whose home is in Havana, is possessed of exceptional ability with the guitar and is cast for one of the leading parts. The duet, which fits well into the theme of the play, should not only round it out pleasingly and naturally, but vie closely for the favor of the audience with the special dance by Gloria Bragiotil...