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...TIME, Nov. 3, 1924) and seized control of Peking, with the consent of Chang, his motives even in that apparent act of bad faith are still under dispute. Some observers have actually asserted that Wu, hard pressed by Chang, asked Feng to "betray" him, in order that he might "flee without disgrace" and recoup his forces, as he has recently managed to do (TIME...
...seventh class of the gymnasium he conceived a plan to flee to America, but when he found how many others were going there, he changes his schemed and for the sake of originality substituted Africa for the western hemisphere. But Nikolai surrendered his dreams of adventure to go to the school of Law in Petrograd, where he soon found an outlet for his instinct for the theatre in the Legal Dramatic Circle. There he appeared in "The Robbers" and 'Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man." There too he produced his first serious musical composition, the opera "The Power of Magic...
...doors of the auditorium, pushing and shoving and grunting to get in and hear. Lady Doyle took the platform, expostulated, when over the stage came a bursting-party of rowdies, who jostled her rudely and tore down the draperies. Cane and papers in hand, Sir Arthur prepared to flee. Peace returned, however, and the famed ghost-seer was enabled to second everything that Mrs. Cadwallader had said...
...neighborhood of 100,000 French troops now in Morocco, of which 20,000 or 25,000 took part in the action. Their overweening numbers made resistance futile. Consequently they had few losses. Two flanking movements starting from opposite ends of a 45-kilometer front induced the Riffians to flee, leaving the Tsoul tribe alone to oppose the French. The Tsouls went over to the Riffs when the French retreated in July. Last week with the situation reversed they "turned faithful" again and came in asking mercy to the French strongholds. The Branes, another stronger tribe to the east, held...
...Tientsin an angry mob rushed the Paocheng mill. One Burton, U. S. manager with his wife and family, was forced to flee. The police first clubbed the irate Chinese with the butts of their rifles. This being ineffective, they fired low into the seething crowd, perforating many legs...